“(1) To be gentle, peaceful, and to abide deeply in right faith;

(2) never to forsake any sentient being;

(3) to achieve a mind of great kindness and great compassion;

(4) to understand all dharmas while remaining unattached to their forms;

(5) never to grasp delusively for any Buddha-Dharmas, in spite of his aspiration to seek them all;

(6) not to aspire to the wisdom of Śrāvakas or Pratekyabuddhas;

(7) to be capable of renouncing ungrudgingly all mundane possessions, even body and life, let alone other things;

(8) not to be contaminated by or attached to conditioned dharmas, although he may undergo countless afflictions in saṁsāra;

(9) to cultivate the immeasurable pāramitās of giving, discipline, patience, vigor, meditation, and wisdom without making distinctions among them; and

(10) always to think, ‘I will establish all sentient beings in the pursuit of Buddha’s enlightenment… and yet without conceiving notion of enlightenment or sentient beings.’”

“it is not the case thats seers of truth are free from the signs of the compounded; they are simply free.”

“and cannot be annihilated even in the midst of realization of individual liberation, because of not falling into the extinction produced by witness of ultimate reality.”

“A rice cake that is painted in a picture cannot stave off hunger. Upon my
oath, I shall not desire to understand the Buddha-Dharma in this life. I only
want to be the monk who serves the morning gruel and midday meal.”

“but when the voices of the river valley are heard, waves break back upon themselves and surf crashes high into the sky.”

“Gross or fine, things become the sage abjured.
Calm, composed, he burst becoming’s shell.”

“All virtuous deeds done in this assembly
Have never come into being;
So it is with all dharmas:
Empty, and passed into nought
In the forever unobtainable past.”

“Just dress in old clothes, eat simple food, and preserve the basic true mind with perfect clarity. Feign ignorance, appear inarticulate.”

“when you turn a flip and appear in the realm of cosmic space, you can be called a real hero.”

“Monks, this samsara is without discoverable beginning . . . whatever suffering arises, all that is rooted in desire, has desire as its source; for desire is the root of suffering.”

“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”

“oceans of eons would be exhausted in telling of my past efforts to purify buddha-lands, my compassionate efforts to save, develop, and purify all beings, my efforts to serve buddhas, my efforts in listening to teachers in quest for truth, my self-sacrifice for the sake of absorbing truth, my sacrifice of life to protect truth.”

“At that moment of clearing barriers and getting free, how could
this paragraph be relevant?”

“by concentration speeding everywhere by dreamlike speed of mind, by realizing mind and body as like reflections.”

“Myriad pure suns emerge
From your mouth;
Your sunlight shines throughout
The vast realm of Vairocana.”

“Girt with the armor of forberance, stength, and firmness, wielding
the sword of knowledge in the hand of compassion,
Facing the band of demons in battle, look upon me, O Hero.”