The essence of the Way is detachment.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.