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

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

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.

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.

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

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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