"This pure Mind,

the source of everything, shines forever and on all with the brilliance of its own perfection. But the people of the world do not awaken to it to it, regarding only that which sees, hears, feels and knows as mind. Blinded by their own sight, hearing, feeling and knowing, they do not perceive the spiritual brilliance of the source-substance. If they would only eliminate all conceptual thought in a flash, that source-substance would manifest itself like the sun ascending through the void and illuminating the whole universe without hindrance or bounds."

Huang Po, Sixth Zen Patriarch
Excerpt | The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (On The Transmission Of Mind)