If you seek enlightenment outside yourself , then your performing even ten thousand practices and ten thousand good deeds will be in vain. It is like the case of a poor man who spends night and day counting his neighbour's wealth but gains not even half a coin. That is why the T'ien-t'ai school's commentary states, "Unless one perceives the nature of one's life, one cannot eradicate one's grave offences." This passage implies that, unless one perceives the nature of one's life, one's practice wil become an endless, painful austerity.
On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime (WND, 3-4)
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