Quotes About Meditation

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

Vast emptiness, nothing holy.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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

A Buddha doesn't observe precepts. A Buddha doesn't do good or evil. A Buddha isn't energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can't even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn't a Buddha. Don't think about Buddhas.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

Even if you have mountains of jewels and as many servants as there are grains of sand along the Ganges, you see them when your eyes are open. But what about when your eyes are shut?You should realize then that everything you see is like a dream or illusion.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. Those who don't understand, don't understand understanding. And those who understand, understand not understanding.