Wu Hsin

 Beliefs provide comfort and security, but no understanding. They are the comfort and security of a pleasant dream. In the same way as sleep overtakes you, true wakefulness will also overtake you. That is the end of beliefs. There is nothing for you to do to bring it about because there can be no “one” to do anything. A candle in a painting cannot be extinguished by the wind. A thought arises and the body reacts in accordance with its nature. It is the conscious life energy that acts while you imagine that you are acting.