“All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beyond which nothing exists. This Mind, without beginning, is unborn¹ and indestructible. It is neither long nor short, large nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces, and comparisons. It is that which you see before you. Begin to reason about it, and you immediately fall into error. It is like the boundless void—unfathomable and immeasurable.
Yet beings cling to forms and seek Buddhahood outside themselves. In seeking it, they lose it, for that is like using the Buddha to search for the Buddha, or using Mind to grasp Mind. They do not realize that if they stop conceptual thought and let go of their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them—for this Mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is all living beings. It is no less when manifested in ordinary beings, and no greater when manifested in Buddhas.”
1 Unborn — not in the sense of eternity (which implies its opposite), but unborn in the sense that it does not belong to any category that allows for change or opposition.