If bodhisattvas say, 'Because I teach dharmas, I eliminate the passions of others,' this is a dharma of individuality. If they say, 'I have liberated other beings,' this is to possess something. Although they liberate other beings, if they think about a subject or object and don't get rid of self and other, they can't be called bodhisattvas. Whereas even if they zealously teach all sorts of expedients to help and liberate other beings, as long as their minds remain free of subject and object, they are bodhisattvas, indeed.
---Hui-neng---
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