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

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

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

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

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.

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.

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