All those of compassion should encourage their minds to think: "Every living being, whether born from the womb or born in any other way, whether they have perception or none, we should bring toward the boundless freedom of liberation. And when this vast and immeasurable number of beings has been liberated, we must not believe that any being has been liberated!" Why is this? It is because no compassionate person who is truly compassionate holds to the idea of a self, a being, or a separate individual.

- Diamond Sutra

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

- Chuang Tsu

Anything that acts as an antidote to self-grasping is Dharma practice. Whereas, even though we may engage in a great variety of practices that may appear to be spiritual, if they do not act to destroy our self-grasping, they are not Dharma practice.

- Gomo Tulku, "Becoming a Child of the Buddhas


When you turn upward, Buddhas and devils appear without a trace; mountains and seas vanish. When you turn downward, clerics are clerics, lay folk are lay folk. You transcend seeing and hearing, get rid of all independence, and ride at leisure on top of sound and form, mastering that which startles the crowd.

- Huai-t'ang

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