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.

By understanding emptiness, one understands all phenomena. Without understanding emptiness, one understands nothing.

The one who grasps at existence suffers in samsara, while the one who grasps at non-existence will find no liberation.

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

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

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

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.

When you realize the emptiness of all phenomena, compassion will arise in your heart for all sentient beings who do not understand this truth.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

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