Chan Embraces Non-duality and Buddha-nature

Chan embraced this account of nonduality and Buddha-nature, but distinctively used it to qualify the meaning of Buddhist practice and the personal ideal of the bodhisattva. In the Platform Sutra attributed to Huineng, he insists that

"meditation is the embodiment (ti) of wisdom, and wisdom is the functioning (yong) of meditation."

The point of Chan is to see one’s own “original nature” (benxing, 本性) and realize “authentic heartmind” (zhenxin, 眞心), and in doing so the dualities of thought and reality, of passion and enlightenment, and of the impure and pure all dissolve.

• Chan Buddhism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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