"You want to understand the ignorance that you were born with. The source of the knot — what causes you to be bound to the cycle of death and rebirth — is your six faculties of perception, nothing more." 1/
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"Also, since you wish to understand the supreme enlightenment, you should understand that it is through those same six faculties that you can quickly gain bliss, liberation, and stillness, wondrous and everlasting." 2/
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"The faculties and their objects come from the same source. What binds and what unbinds are one and the same. The consciousnesses are by nature illusory, like flowers seen in the sky." 3/
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"In response to objects, Ānanda, there is perception, and in response to the faculties there are objects. Neither the objects nor perceptions of them have an essential nature; they are dependent on each other, like intertwining reeds." 4/
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"Know, therefore, that the establishment of perceived objects such that they exist separately within your awareness is the foundation of ignorance." 5/
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"When objects are not perceived as separate from awareness, that itself is nirvāṇa, which is the true purity, free of outflows. Why would you allow anything else to be added to it?" 6/
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Śūraṅgama Sūtra
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Chapter V: Instructions for Practice 
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