You should not follow them but realise what they are pointing to. Treasuring and sticking to them is being deluded by them. This is, as mentioned many times before, why the Buddha said that He didn’t say even a single word.
For example, there is a very common and popular sentence ‘everything is empty’ which is the core of Buddhism. If we truly understand this, we should know that the words ‘everything is empty’ are also empty, that they are not words anymore but the function of Emptiness and that there is nothing to treasure and follow.
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