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

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

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

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.