Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
• And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
• Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
• Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
• All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
• But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
• A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
• A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
• If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
• Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.