When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough.
When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.
– Fen-Yang
Just three things to teach
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all being in the world.
– Lao Tzu
How to get rid of the mind
How to get rid of the mind?
Is it the mind that wants to kill itself?
The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind.
When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere.
Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.
– Ramana Maharshi