Occupation: Biographer
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen..
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, ma….
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 underst….
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself..
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us..
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain..
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help..
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas..
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind..
To have a body is to suffer..
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space….
Everything sacred, nothing sacred..
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink….
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odor….
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything..