Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.