There is no other task but to know your own original face. This is called independence; the spirit is clear and free. If you say there is some particular doctrine or patriarchy, you’ll be totally cheated.

Just look into your heart; there is a transcendental clarity. Just have no greed and no dependency and you will immediately attain certainty.

Yantou Quanhuo (828 CE-887 CE), Yantou Quanhuo was an ancient Ch'an master of Yantou Monastery in Ezhou, China.