Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.