When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.