It isn't the wisdom of prajna that's great or small. It's because all these beings have deluded themselves into looking for a buddha through external practices and haven't yet realized their own nature that they remain people of small capacity. And yet, on hearing this direct teaching, if they depend not on external practices but simply their own minds and they let their own nature give rise to right views, even all these beings with their mistaken views, their passions, and their afflictions will suddenly wake up, and like the ocean that takes in all rivers, the great and the small, and combines them into one, they will see their nature and not dwell on the inside or the outside. They will come and go freely and be able to get rid of attachments and penetrate everything without restriction. The mind that cultivates such a practice is basically no different from the Prajnaparamita Sutra.
---The Platform Sutra---
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