Through understanding emptiness, one does not become proud of one's virtues, just as one does not become proud of building a castle in the sky.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

The person who clings to nothing of the past, present and future, who has no attachment and no aversion, has no conceptual imprints.

Those who understand interdependent origination understand suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

The essence of the teaching is emptiness and compassion. Without emptiness, compassion can become attachment. Without compassion, emptiness can become cold and distant.

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

Like a dream, like an illusion, like a city of gandharvas, that's how birth, and that's how living, that's how dying are taught to be.

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

The teaching of the Buddha is based on two truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. Without understanding the relationship between these two, the deeper meaning of the Buddha's teaching cannot be understood.

Although all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, they function perfectly well.

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.

For whom emptiness is possible, everything is possible. For whom emptiness is not possible, nothing is possible.

All experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.