Great Throughts Treasury

"The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, that one has accomplished nothing."

"There is not the slightest difference between cyclic existence and nirvana. There is not the slightest difference between nirvana and cyclic existence."

"Since all is empty, all is possible."

"Just as it is known that an image of one's face is seen depending on a mirror but does not really exist as a face, so the conception of "I" exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a face; the "I" does not at all exist as its own reality."

"If wanderers were not themselves the cause, then like the scent and color of the lotus in the sky, there would be no perception of the universe."

"I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have. This frightens all children, and kills fear in the wise."

"I praise that perfect Buddha, who taught us relativity; free of cessation and creation, without annihilation and permanence, with no coming and no going, Not a unity, nor a plurality, fabrications quieted, the supreme bliss!"

"There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things."