"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