Incomparable Dharma

"Then Subhuti asked Buddha: World-honored One, in the attainment of the Consumation of Incomparable Enlightenment did Buddha make no acquisition whatsoever?"

"Buddha replied: Just so, Subhuti. Through the Consumation of Incomparable Enlightenment I acquired not even the least thing: wherefore it is called Consumation of Incomparable Enlightenment."

The quote is from the 22nd chapter of the Diamond Sutra, entitled "It Cannot be Said that Anything is Attainable."

(The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui Neng, page 61, translated by A.F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam, publised by Shambhala Publications Inc. Boston, 1969)

Good Basic Dharma

"Mind is the forerunner of all actions.

All deeds are led by mind, created by mind.

If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind,

suffering follows,

As the wheel follows the hoof of an ox pulling a cart."

"Mind is the forerunner of all actions.

All deeds are led by mind, created by mind.

If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows,

As surely as one's shadow."

The above quote is the first two verses from the first chapter of the Dhammapada, entitled "Twins".

(The Dhammapada, The Path of Truth, page 9, translated by the Venerable Balangoda Ananda Maitreya, revised by Rose Kramer, published by Parallax Press in 1995)

The Essence of Shingon

"Oh master of mysteries, what is Enightenment (bodhi)? That is to know one's own mind as it really is."

The above quote is the Mahavairocana Buddha speaking to the Bodhisattva Vajradhara in the first chapter of the Mahavairocana Sutra.

(Mahavairocana Sutra, page 3, translated by Chikyo Yamamoto of Koyasan University, published by the International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan of New Delhi, first published in 1990, reprinted in 2001.)