"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."
Deluded People
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Mind
Awareness of Body and Mind
"Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either."
Your own mind is the Buddha
"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
Still Mind
"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
Order is Virtue
"Order is virtue. And order isn’t a thing to be cultivated; you can’t say 'I will be orderly', 'I will do this and I won’t do that'—then you are merely disciplining yourself, becoming more and more rigid, mechanical. Such a mind is totally incapable of coming upon...
Consistent Thinker
"A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove."
The Ending of the Me
"In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me."
Freedom from Suffering
"And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering."
Freedom from the Past
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
Total Development
"For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be...