The view is like a lion - it cannot be led around by anything else. Meditation is like an eagle - it cannot be distracted by anything else. Action is like a madman - it is free from accepting and rejecting.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

The dharma is not outside of you. Looking for it elsewhere is like placing a Buddha on your head while searching for him everywhere else.

If you want to know the past, look at the present. If you want to know the future, look at the present.

When thoughts arise, recognize them as the display of your own awareness, like recognizing your own children in a crowd.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

In the moment of anger, abandon anger but not the person. In the moment of attachment, abandon attachment but not the person.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

To see directly is to be free of hope and fear. Hope and fear are like a cloud before the sun.

The supreme path is not to fabricate anything. The supreme meditation is not to be distracted.

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

The nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.