None

There’s no benefit in deceiving yourself.

𑁋Bodhidharma

True Buddhahood

Reverence to you, who, seeking to make meaningful all your efforts, made throughout beginningless time, sat unmoving in the vajra posture beneath the bodhi tree in Magadha and awakened unto true Buddhahood, attaining perfect enlightenment.

𑁋Arya Nagarjuna

Praise

Reverence to the Buddha Shakyamuni!

You I shall praise, who first awakened the mind of enlightenment,

then completed the accumulations of merit and wisdom,

and now in this age, through the vast power of your actions,

have become the Lord and Protector of all beings.

𑁋Ārya Nāgārjuna

Paths

When one is not yet near nirvana, there are many paths.

When one is near nirvana, there is but a single path.

𑁋Surangama Sutra

Memories

Just like a dream experience,

whatever I enjoy will become a memory.

Whatever has passed I will not see again.

𑁋Arya Shantideva

Balanced

Do not let your mind get too tense or too inwardly concentrated; let your senses be naturally at ease, balanced between tension and relaxation.

𑁋Machig Labdron

Heaven and Hell

Heaven and hell are not at the end of your life; they are here and now. The door opens at every moment; at every moment you walk between heaven and hell. It is something that happens from moment to moment, it is urgent; in a moment you can go from hell to heaven, from heaven to hell.

Hell and heaven are within you. The doors are very close to each other: with your right hand you can open one and with your left you can open the other. With a mental change, your whole being is transformed: from heaven to hell and from hell to heaven.

When you act unconsciously, without attention, you are in hell; when you are conscious, when you act with full attention, you are in heaven.

𑁋Hakuin Ekaku

Uncertainty

Any speech that ignores uncertainty is not the speech of a sage. Remember this.

—Ajahn Chah

Three Gateways

All phenomena have the nature of emptiness, beyond conceptual reference.

All phenomena have the nature of signlessness, beyond conceptual thought.

All phenomena have the nature of wishlessness, beyond acceptance and rejection.

𑁋Brahmā-paripṛcchā-sūtra

What is the samadhi of emptiness? The contemplation that understands analytically that all phenomena are empty of their own mark is the gateway to liberation called emptiness.

What is the samadhi of signlessness? The samadhi that understands analytically that all phenomena are without a causal sign is the gateway to liberation called signlessness.

What is the samadhi of wishlessness? The contemplation that understands analytically that all phenomena do not occasion anything is the gateway to liberation called wishlessness.

Those three gateways to liberation are the Great Vehicle of Bodhisattva Mahasattvas.

𑁋Āryāṣṭā­daśa­sāhasrikā­prajñā­pāramitā­nāma­mahāyāna­sūtra

Recognition

If only beings would recognize their own true face as that of the Tathagata whom they so eagerly seek!

𑁋Heze Shenhui