An unenlightened life rises from a mind that is bewildered by its own world of delusion. If we learn that there is no world of delusion outside the mind, the bewildered mind becomes clear; and because we cease to create impure surroundings, we attain enlightenment.
All things are primarily controlled and ruled by the mind and are created up by the mind. As the wheels follow the ox that draws the cart, so does suffering follow the person who speaks and acts with an impure mind.
things are like illusions, they can be said neither to be existent, or non-existent.
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it were real, so he escapes the suffering.
Two extremes to avoid, first is extreme indulgence in the desires of the body, second is the opposite extreme of ascetic discipline, torturing one´s body and mind unreasonably.
Things neither exist nor do not exist.
Namu Amida Butsu
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