If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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

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

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.