The Heart Sutra: Evaporating Clouds & Revealing the Luminous

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“There is, monks, an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated.
If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated,
there would not be the case that emancipation from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned.”
— Udāna 8.3 (Nibbāna Sutta).
Source / translation: Access to Insight — Nibbāna Sutta (Ud 8.3).

“The Tao has reality and evidence but no action or form.
It can be handed down but not received;
it can be obtained but not seen.
It is its own source, its own root.
Before heaven and earth existed it was there,
firm from ancient times.”
— Chuang Tzu, ch. 6 (“The Great and Venerable Teacher”)

“Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?”
— Chuang Tzu, ch. 26 (“External Things”)

“When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten.
When the belt fits, the waist is forgotten.
When the heart is right, ‘for’ and ‘against’ are forgotten.”
— Chuang Tzu, ch. 19 (“Perfect Happiness”)

"To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. ³To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. ⁴To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. ⁵Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. ⁶It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. ⁷It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his Creator as unlike himself." (ACIM, W-68.1:2-7)

"Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. ²Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. ³Hold onto nothing. ⁴Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. ⁵Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God." (ACIM, W-189.7:1-5)

"Q: Sri Bhagavan speaks of the Heart as the seat of consciousness and as identical with the Self. What does the Heart exactly signify?"
Sri Ramana Maharshi:
"Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart or the seat of consciousness, it is all the same.
The point to be grasped is this, that Heart means the very core of one's being, the centre, without which there is nothing whatever.
The Heart is not physical, it is spiritual. Hridayam equals hrit plus ayam; it means `this is the centre'.
It is that from which thoughts arise, on which they subsist and where they are resolved. The thoughts are the content of the mind and they shape the universe.
The Heart is the centre of all. That from which beings come into existence is said to be Brahman in the Upanishads.
That is the Heart. Brahman is the Heart."

From Be As You Are

"Let go of longing and aversion, and [Tao/Truth] reveals itself.
Make the smallest distinction, however, and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth.
If you want to realize the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything."
Hsin Hsin Ming (https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Hsin-Hsin-Ming.pdf)

Lao Tzu:

"The way that can be spoken of
Is not the constant way;
The name that can be named
Is not the constant name.

The nameless was the beginning of heaven and earth;
The named was the mother of the myriad creatures.

Hence always rid yourself of desires in order to observe its secrets;
But always allow yourself to have desires in order to observe its manifestations.

These two are the same
But diverge in name as they issue forth."

Tao Te Ching chapter 1