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Attachment is the failure to see that everything comes from the mind. Once one sees one's own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose.

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Awakening is the quality of someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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Buddha is awareness of body and mind such that it prevents evil from arising in either body or mind.

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Delusion is a state in which there is a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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Emptiness is taught to crush the concrete ideas of the students. Even clinging to an idea of emptiness is a betrayal of all Buddhas.

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Female circumcision persists precisely because the rite is embedded in culturally salient idioms of purity, embodiment, sexuality, fertility, and 'enclosedness'.

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Mind is of limitless capacity and its manifestations are inexhaustible (visions, sounds, smells , flavors).

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Mind is not the mind of the materialists: it has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. one cannot hold it.

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Mind is unknowable as long as one deceives oneself.

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Mind is that place where, at every moment, language cannot go.

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Mind is that beyond which it is impossible to find anything. Everything good and bad comes from one's own mind.

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Mind is that without which there is no Buddha, and without the Buddha there's no mind.

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Mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real... it neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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Mind is of no use in Buddhism. If one uses one's mind to look for a Buddha, one won't see the Buddha.

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Reality is understood not by using one's mind, for the mind and the world are opposites with vision arising where they meet.