When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

. . . 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.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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.

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

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