It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.