If you try to practice spiritual cultivation by clinging to words, then words are just words and you are you. Like oil just sitting on water, you won’t be able to achieve the level of enlightenment where all delusions are suddenly and thoroughly destroyed. If you would achieve a very clear level of enlightenment,then you must go forward and see from the place that exists before a single thought arises. Seeing like this, if you suddenly forget, then the five-colored threads in your mind will all be naturally cut off.