Question: Is the Way found only in embodied spiritual entities, or does it reside in grass and trees as well?” Answer: There is no place the Way does not pervade. Question: If the Way is pervasive, why is it a crime to kill a person, whereas it is not a crime to kill grass and trees?” Answer: Talk of whether it is a crime or not is a matter related to sentience and is thus not the true Way. It is only because worldly people have not attained the Way and falsely believe in a personal self, that their murder entails mental [intent]. This intent bears karmic fruit, and thus we speak of it as a crime. Grass and trees have no sentience and thus originally are in accord with the Way. As they are free of a self, there is no calculation involved in killing them, and thus we do not argue over whether it is a crime or not. Now one who is free of a self and is in accord with the Way looks at his own body as he would at grass or at trees. He treats the cutting of his own body as do trees in a forest. Question: “If grass and trees have long been in accord with the Way, why do the scriptures not record the buddhahood of grass or trees, but only of persons?” Answer: “They do not only record [the buddhahood] of persons, but of grass and trees as well. A scripture says, ‘A single mote of dust contains all dharmas.’ Another says, ‘All dharmas are suchness; all sentient beings are also suchness.’ Suchness pervades all without exception [i.e. all is uniformly empty].

[Some] posit the existence of both meditative discernments and paths of rebirth, and they grasp at the absorption of non-conception. It is precisely because of such deluded conceptualization that they are born into that [realm of grasping at non-conception]. If they could free  themselves  from  [attachment  to] the  meditative  absorption  into non-conception, then there would be no deluded thought nor rebirth into that heaven. The Vajracchedikā-sūtra says, ‘To be free of all marks, this is called [the way of ] the Buddhas.’ In what scripture is it said that freedom from deluded conception is not the way to Buddhahood?

"Sadly it could never be sorted, what desire was. Though, it used to be wonted that one gave himself over each time to the cramped flight. That was the dream. To study charts, now, that is something. The consummate lines showing neatly as rise, simply, an arc near the answer to some question I'd posed, and light, very light. Having reached nirvana, I'd keep myself nestled in the lit strata of some stars, a sheet of carbon, dense and billow in my high Fahrenheit, a shroud. In all directions the light is smoothed. Kept so utterly stitched, beyond idiocy only insentience could follow."