The Founding Master said, “The study of any science has limits to its use, but if you learn how to make the mind function, this study can be utilized without a moment’s interruption. Therefore, mind practice becomes the basis for all other studies.”

The Founding Master said, “A practitioner of the Way seeks to know the mind in order to achieve freedom of mind, to understand the principle of birth and death in order to transcend birth and death, and to understand the principle of transgression and blessings in order to control them as one pleases.”

The Founding Master said, “Those who have made a great vow to the great Way should not hope to accomplish it quickly. With quick steps one cannot walk a long distance; with an impatient mind one cannot achieve the great Way. That tall tree is the result of a small shoot growing for many years without decaying; buddhas and bodhisattvas are the result of accumulating merits over a long period of t..

The Founding Master said, “There are two Māras hindering great practice. The first is, ignoring one’s own spiritual capacity, one stops progressing by denigrating and giving up on oneself. The second is, satisfied with a modicum of knowledge, one stops progressing by being proud and haughty. Without getting rid of these two hindrances of Māra, one cannot accomplish great practice.”

The Founding Master said, “A person who has lost all hope is someone whose physical body is still alive but whose mind is dead. Even a villain who has committed murder, robbery, or sexual misconduct, if he turns his mind around just once, may still become a buddha or a bodhisattva. But for a person who has lost all hope, there is nothing that can be done for that person until his or her mind bec..

The Founding Master said, “One who vanquishes another is strong, but one who vanquishes oneself is even stronger. One who is able to conquer oneself will gain the strength to conquer anyone under heaven.”

The Founding Master said, “Sentient beings turn even a benefactor ten times over into an object of resentment if he or she fails just once to favor them. Persons of the Way thank a person who has wronged them even ten times over if he or she favors them just once. Therefore, sentient beings discover only the harm within grace and bring on disorder and disruption; persons of the Way find the grac..

The Founding Master said, “The great loving-kindness and great compassion of the Buddha radiates more warmth and brightness than the sun. Thus, where this loving-kindness and compassion reach, the ignorant minds of sentient beings melt away into the mind of wisdom; their minds of cruelty melt away into the mind of loving-kindness and compassion; the mind of miserliness and greed melts away into ..

The Founding Master said, “For anyone born into this world, no matter who it is, the moment of death will inevitably come. Thus, today I will explain to you,as someone who is close to the dying person, how to send on the spirit at the time of a person’s entering nirvāṇa, as well as how the person whose spirit is about to depart should prepare for death. Listen closely to these instructions! With..

The Founding Master said, “There are many Ways we must follow, but if you reduce them down, they are nothing more than the Way of life and the Way of death. While we are alive, if we do not understand the Way of life, we will not be able to actualize the value of living. And while we are dying, if we do not understand the Way of death, it will be difficult to avoid baleful destinies.”