Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

. . . 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.

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.