"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

"We are training to let everything come and go, without fear or clinging. This is the main reason we meditate."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 171

"We usually grasp at whatever occurs. For instance, when sadness arises, we hold on to this feeling and think, “I am so sad, I am so depressed.” But from the Mahamudra point of view, what has happened? A feeling has arisen in the mind, like a cloud. Like a cloud, it appears and then it disappears, and that’s all there is to it. This time it is sadness arising, the next time it may be happiness, the next time it may be anger, and later it may be kindness. All sorts of things arise, like wildflowers in a spring meadow. All sorts of flowers grow; all sorts of thoughts and emotions arise. They are all okay; they’re nothing special. When we understand what our thoughts and feelings are, and we experience them in this way, we are able to let them come and let them go."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 122