Mahamati, a noble son or daughter should not embrace or cling to anything that is said because what is real is beyond language.
Mahamati, if one person points to something with their finger, and a foolish person looks at their finger, they won't know what they really mean. In the same manner, foolish people become attached to the finger of words. And because they never look away from it, they are never able to discover the true meaning beyond the finger of words.
---The Buddha, in The Lankavatara Sutra---
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