Sublime

And he who realizes Buddha in himself, “the one behind your face, listening to my sermon,” lives in self-confidence.

Whenever you believe that something or someone, some insight or some experience will truly make you happy, you are wrong. Only opening as you are is true happiness. You suffer jealousy when you forget this.

To know the real self is arduous; one has to travel long to arrive home. One has to knock on many doors before one comes to the right door. The easy trick is, you can create a false self. To grow real roses is difficult; you can purchase plastic roses. They will not deceive you, but they will deceive the neighbors. Mm? That is the point of the self

He emphasizes that “truth” is not found by going from teacher to teacher, church to church, or discipline to discipline, but by looking within the self.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.