Buddhist Quotes

Whether Tathagatas do or do not appear, this dharmic element is established in dharmas because there is no discrimination about it.

Do not get attached to a false imagination, to a nonexistent entity which is empty of own-being.

If a fictitious magical creation were to instruct another magical creation, would these magical creations be capable of enlightenment?

The wishless door to emancipation means that which has not been brought about.

The signless door to emancipation means the departure of signs.

The emptiness door to emancipation means that which is empty of own-marks.

The emptiness of essential nature is never not emptiness. It has not been made by the Tathagatas or the Gods.

All dharmas have nothing to do with a being.

Those, who for the sake of beings put on armor, want to exert themselves and struggle for the sake of space; they want to liberate space.

In the emptiness of essential nature there is no one who could attain and nothing to attain.

How shall I instruct and admonish a non-creation in a Perfect Wisdom, which is also a non-creation?

All dharmas are signless, unrememberable, and not a proper object of attention.

In the emptiness of essential nature, no being can be apprehended, no dharma, and no non-dharma.

The unconditioned, non-production, nonexistence, non-manifestation -- this is the emptiness of essential nature.

A bodhisattva knows individual consciousness itself as a fourfold army conjured up by a magician.

A bodhisattva knows that desires are like the plantain tree -- you strip off one leaf after another and cannot apprehend any core.

A bodhisattva knows perception is like a mirage, where no water can be apprehended.

As floating water bubbles rise and burst, so a bodhisattva knows feelings to be. Feelings do not come from anywhere and do not go anywhere.

Since it is full of cracks and holes, a bodhisattva wisely knows form to be as unsubstantial as a mass of foam.

A bodhisattva purifies the Buddha-field by purifying the thoughts of all beings.