Don’t say mindlessness is itself Zen; there is an even more recondite road herein. After you have overturned the donkey-tethering stake, as you hit the south you move the north.

-Huai-shan

Attachment is the mind stuck to an object.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Door to Satisfaction

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one’s responsibilities, serves one’s fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama, October 1993

Don't give way to heedlessness
or to intimacy
with sensual delight--
for a heedful person,
absorbed in jhana,
attains an abundance of ease.

-Dhammapada, 2, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

An accomplished person does not by a philosophical view, or by thinking become arrogant, for he is not of that sort; not by holy works, nor by tradition is he to be led, he is not led into any of the resting places of the mind.

-adapted from the Sutta-nipata, translated by V. Fausboll

In whom there dwells no self-deception and no pride,
Whose lust and selfishness are gone, who is desireless,
Whose wrath is put away, whose self hath cool become-
He is brahmin, he [is] a recluse, he is a monk.

-Udana

Before the cosmic net is spread, how can its thousands of pearls be seen? When it is suddenly raised by its universal rope, the myriad eyes spontaneously open.

-Ts’ao-t’ang

This fundamental consciousness in itself is nothing at all. In the voidness of reality lack of realizer and realized is realized, lack of seer and seen is seen, lack of knower and known is known, lack of perceiver and perceived is perceived.

-Milarepa, Drinking the Mountain Stream

It is not sufficient for religious people to be involved with prayer. Rather, they are morally obliged to contribute all they can to solving the world’s problems.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

He's called a Brahmin
for having banished his evil,
a contemplative
for living in consonance,
one gone forth
for having forsaken
his own impurities.

-Dhammapada, 26, translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.