"Form needs our investment of words to sustain it, silence slowly dissolves form back into the formless. There is nothing we need to do except be willing to see without words."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 155

"If you distilled out all the internal contents of your consciousness, including all thoughts and states of mind, you would again come to that same refined and simple state of being. This unprocessed sense of aliveness, both inside and out, is formless awareness."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 148

"Form is what you see, the objects of sight; formless awareness is what sees the objects, the seeing itself."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 28

"Wisdom lives everything and avoids nothing."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 104

"The person is a product of the mind, not the other way around, and the incessant mind chatter has to be maintained for the person to believe he or she is outside looking in. We know ourselves only by making mental noise, and if the mind gets quiet, this false dichotomy of "me" separate from "my" mental experience cannot be maintained.

The concept of "I" is another thought coming from the mind.

When we actually look inwardly with awareness to see this "I", we see only thought, emotion, and memory. There is no entity apart from these thoughts.

The thoughts of the brain and the sense of I are one and the same thing.

Over time these mental functions assumed themselves to be a person.

The person who was just created out of thought now became the person outside of the brain having the thought."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 43-45

"Thought gives substance to all things but does not impart essence to anything. The essence of all things is formless awareness, and nothing exists except that the formless makes it so."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 35

"Hear the sounds, smell the odors, and softly see the forms arising in this moment. Resist investing energy in thinking about what is sensed and hold the sensation just as it is, free of thought. Let awareness be expansive so there are no limitations. Now sense what holds all the shapes, sounds and sensations of this moment and feel the living moment itself."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 34

"Once you fully experience the nature of your mind, you are a buddha. Awareness of your true nature is the stainless, single eye of wisdom.

The distinction between being enlightened and not being enlightened is whether you experience your nature fully or not. In seeing your nature, there is nothing to see, because there is nothing there."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 181

"Emptiness means that everything changes according to conditions."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 175

"The main purpose of practice is to free ourselves from suffering."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 170

"Having no agenda for yourself is the whole point.
You have no need to get rid of or accomplish anything."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 161

"Our problems don't come from having feelings and emotions; they come from holding on to them."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 157

"The more you are able to let be and free yourself from concepts, the more you are able to open your heart. And the more you open your heart, the more you can relax in the nature of the mind."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 77

"When you look for the mind, the only thing you can find is awareness. The mind is nothing more than that. 

The nature of the mind is nothing but awareness-emptiness."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 72-73

"The mind is a succession of thoughts and emotions, instant by instant."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 65

"Thoughts and emotions are simply manifestations of your natural awareness, which, in a way, is actually nothing."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 63

"The practice is to cut through attachment and see that whatever happens is okay."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 62

"No matter how good an experience is, it is still a mental arising. It doesn't matter whether it is nonthought, peace, emptiness or whatever. The moment you cling to it, it is samsara. Actual wisdom is being able to free yourself from anything."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 61

"The path is not about being positive instead of negative. It is about becoming liberated from both positive and negative, since both of them are concepts."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 59

"It's completely natural to have thoughts, emotions and sensations when we meditate. They are not a problem unless we have aversion or attachment to them."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 58

"How we feel is very much a matter of how we conceptualize what is happening.

When we name or conceptualize something in a certain way, then it becomes that way."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 54-55

"The mind's nature is emptiness.

We think we're experiencing something external that is pleasant or unpleasant. Actually, it is only our mind. What we experience is not out there; our experience is merely a display of our mind.

Thoughts are just displays of the mind, and they do not harm the mind."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 47

"When you look for the mind and examine introspectively, you cannot find it. We could call the inability to find anything 'emptiness'. What emptiness means is that there is nothing graspable. "

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 46

"There is the cause of suffering and we must eliminate it, and yet there is nothing to eliminate. There is the cessation of suffering and we must attain it, and yet there is nothing to attain. "

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 45