If you comprehend completely the clear purity of the mind-source, then all vows are fulfilled, all practices are completed, all is accomplished. You are no longer subject to states of being. For those who find the body of reality [Dharmakaya], the numberless sentient beings are just one good person: the one person who has been there in accord with This through a million billion aeons.
If pure energy and true integrity are not generated within you, it accomplishes nothing even if you encounter countless buddhas past, present and future. Thus we know that sentient beings save themselves by knowing Mind - the buddhas do not save sentient beings. If the buddhas can save sentient beings, since we have met countless buddhas in the past, why haven't we all become enlightened? It is just because pure energy and integrity have not been generated within. Unless the mind attains what the mouth speaks of, you will never avoid taking on form according to your deeds.
Thus, enlightened nature is like the sun and moon to the world. Within wood, there is [the potential for] fire. Within humans, there is an enlightened true identity; it is also called the lamp of the buddha-nature and the mirror of nirvana. The great nirvana mirror is brighter than sun and moon: inside and out it is perfectly pure, boundless and infinite.
Another simile is smelting gold. When the dross is obliterated, the pure gold is unharmed. When the forms "sentient beings" and "birth and death" are obliterated, the body of reality is unharmed.
Accomplishment in sitting meditation is experienced by oneself within one's own body. Thus a picture of a cake is not fit for a meal: if you speak of feeding it to other people, how can it satisfy them? Though you wish to remove the blockages of the past, instead you make the future offshoots even stronger. The Huayan Sutra says, "It is like being a poor man, day and night counting the treasures of others without having a single penny of his own."
Being learned is also like this. Moreover, those who read should only look at books for a while, then hasten to put them away. If you do not give them up, it is the same as verbal learning - this is no diferrent from looking for ice by boiling water.
Thus, all the verbal explanations spoken by the buddhas speak of the unspoken. Amid the reality of all phenomena, they are speechless, but nothing is left unsaid. If you understand this, when one is raised, a thousand follow. The Lotus Sutra says, "Not real, not false, not thus, not otherwise."
Second Patriarch Huike, as recorded in the Record of the Masters and Disciples of the Lankavatara School, J.C. Cleary translation
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