Realize the nature of mind,
Because it is at the root of both samsaric suffering
And nirvanic bliss.
When you realize this,
Rest the mind without meditating,
Because only deluded people seek enlightenment
By abandoning their own minds.

Saraha

quoted in the book The Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje's Ocean of Certainty

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Further quotes from the book The Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje's Ocean of Certainty:

• Maintaining awareness
• Realizing the nature of mind
• Mind’s reflections
• The way to rest the mind
• Diversity and unity
• Relaxing in an unconditional state
• Free from all empirical characteristics
• Maintaing awareness in the states of agitation and meditative equipoise