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're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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

In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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

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.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.