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. . . .

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.