The buddha is your real body, your original mind.
This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones.
It's like space.
You can't hold it.
It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists.
Except for a tathagata, no one else -- no mortal, no deluded being -- can fathom it.
(p. 43)
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