You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.