Observe your original mind; don't cling to the appearances of external things. There are no four vehicles in truth, but human minds have differences of level. Seeing, hearing, reading, and reciting are the small vehicle; understanding the teaching and solving the meaning is the middle vehicle; cultivating conduct in accord with the teaching is the great vehicle. Penetrating the truths, encompassing all realities, undefiled by everything, detached from the appearances of all things, not grasping anything at all, is called the supreme vehicle. Vehicle means going; it is not a matter of verbal argument. You should practice on your own; don't ask me. At all times your own essential nature is as is of itself.
---The Sutra of Hui-neng---
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