Everything good and bad comes from your own mind.
To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
(p. 77)
To go from mortal to buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
(p. 35)
When we're deluded there's a world to escape.
When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
(p. 51)
Don't hate life and death or love life and death.
Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
(p. 59)
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Such is his power that karma can't hold him.
No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it.
Heaven and hell are nothing to him.
But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.
(pp. 31-33)
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