But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.