Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.