Huangbo Xiyun: Illusion is not something rooted in reality; it exists because of your dualistic thinking.

The arising and the elimination of illusion are both illusory. Illusion is not something rooted in reality; it exists because of your dualistic thinking. If you will only cease to indulge in opposed concepts such as 'ordinary' and 'Enlightened', illusion will cease of itself. And then if you still want to destroy it wherever it may be, you will find that there is not a hairsbreadth left of anything on which to lay hold. This is the meaning of: 'I will let go with both hands, for then I shall certainly discover the Buddha in my Mind.'

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Huangbo Xiyun, On the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld, 1958

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Wandering Ronin commentary: How to Destroy Angels, The Wake-Up

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