Master Shitou said to an assembly,
My teaching is the transmission of past Buddhas; it does not discuss meditation or diligence, just arriving at the knowledge and insight of Buddhas. Mind itself is Buddha—mind, Buddha, living beings, enlightenment and affliction—the names are different but the essence is one. You should know the spiritual essence of your own mind is beyond annihilation and eternity, not defiled or pure, profoundly calm and perfectly complete, equal in ordinary people and saints. Its responsive function has no standard method; it is beyond thought, ideation, and cognition. The three realms and six courses of existence are only manifestations of your own mind. How could the moon in water or images in a mirror have any origin or passing away? If you are able to know this, you lack nothing.
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Submitted July 13, 2017 at 03:10AM by koancomentator http://ift.tt/2sRGmJH
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