Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns; the original nature of your own mind. The natural state of the universe unmanifest.

Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature, it is home.

-Tibetan Book of the Dead

If you turn your light inwardly, you will find what is esoteric within you.

-The Sutra of Hui Neng

When mind and Buddha are both observed, that is seeing; when mind and Buddha are both forgotten, that is stopping. Once concentration and insight are balanced, what mind is not Buddha, what Buddha not mind? Mind and Buddha being thus, then myriad situations, myriad conditions, are all meditation.

-Ts’ao-t’ang

A monk asked, ‘If on the road one meets a person of the Way, how could one respond to that person with neither words nor silence?’

Daopi said, ‘With kicks and punches.’

-Zen’s Chinese Heritage

Even in the case of individuals, there is no possibility to feel happiness through anger. If in a difficult situation one becomes disturbed internally, overwhelmed by mental discomfort, then external things will not help at all. However, if despite external difficulties or problems, internally one’s attitude is of love, warmth, and kindheartedness ( Read more... )

The monk delighting in heedfulness,
seeing danger in heedlessness,
advances like a fire,
burning fetters
great & small.

The monk delighting in heedfulness,
seeing danger in heedlessness
--incapable of falling back--
stands right on the verge
of Unbinding.

-Dhammapada, 2, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Owing to worldly beliefs, which he is free to accept or reject, a person wanders in Samsara. Therefore, practicing the Dharma, freed from every attachment, grasp the whole essence of these teachings.

-Tibetan Book of The Great Liberation

Do some work in your garden or with your potted plants. Even a tiny primrose or primula (the first rose of spring) can brighten up a dull spot. And, remember, every flower has an angel looking after it. Greet that angel today ( Read more... )

By realizing that all forms are self-awareness,
I have beheld my consort’s face-the true Mind Within.

-Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

It is like the water of the ocean: even without wind there are waves everywhere. Suddenly knowing of the waves all around is the gross within the subtle; letting go of knowledge in the midst of knowing is like the subtle within the subtle. This is the sphere of the enlightened.

-Pai-chang