If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.