Question: "What is called Buddha?" Answer: "To awaken according to the Dharma, to awaken to the fact that there is nothing to be awakened to, is called Buddha". From the Bodhidharma Anthology.

"We make every effort to keep things as they are, because human beings, alone, lament transience. Yet no matter how we grieve or protest, there is no way to impede the flow of anything. If we but see things as they are and flow with them, we may find enjoyment in transience." Shundo Aoyama, Zen Seeds

"As the flame blown out by the wind
Goes to rest and cannot be defined
So the wise man freed from individuality
Goes to rest and cannot be defined
Gone beyond all images -
Gone beyond the power of words."
Majjhima Nikaya 245-6

"We say it's [the mind] is like a ball. If, when a ball bounces you hit the ball it keeps bouncing. If you don't hit it, it loses its energy. So the practice ... is the way to keep your hands from bouncing the ball. So your mind will do what it does. .... Eventually the mind will get tired of al that and the ball will stop bouncing and when the ball stops bouncing then universe can come in and then you find that the universe has been there all along." [Beth Goldering on page 80 of Harris, E 1998 - What Buddhists believe. Oneworld Publications, Oxford. Isbn 18568168X]