“In cultivation there are 84,000 Dharma-doors.…Of those 84,000 Dharma-doors, ultimately which Dharma-door is number one? Of the 84,000 Dharma-doors, 84,000 are number one. What does that mean? It means, if a Dharma suits your potentials, then it is the number one Dharma. If it doesn’t suit your potentials, then it is not number one for you. However, if it doesn’t suit your potentials, it may suit someone else’s potentials. Any Dharma that suits anyone’s potentials is number one for that individual. Therefore, they are all number one Dharma-doors; all are nondual Dharma- doors.

If you try to force a discrimination about which is best and say, ‘This one is number one, that one is number two, and then there are the third, the fourth, counting up to 84,000,’ no one would cultivate the 84,000th Dharma-door. Why not? Because it is the very last one. The way that people’s minds work is that they want to be number one. Therefore, I don’t pay attention to whether I’m right or not; I just call all the Dharma-doors spoken by the Buddha ‘number one,’ without any ‘number two.’ Whether you take a logical, psychological, philosophical, or scientific stance, all are number one. Each one is included in the 84,000 Dharma-doors. The same applies to each one of us. Each person is number one. There is no number two. For there to be a number two, you would have to tie two people together." (TT 107-108)

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