If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.
But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.