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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

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

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.

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.

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

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

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

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.