Those who seek the Dharma should not seek for anything. Outside of mind there is no other Buddha, outside of Buddha there is no other mind. Not attaching to good and not rejecting evil without reliance on either purity or defilement, one realizes that the nature of offence is empty: it cannot be found in each thought because it is without self-nature.
Therefore, the three realms are mind-only and 'all phenomena in the universe are marked by a single Dharma.' Whenever we see form, it is just seeing the mind. The mind does not exist by itself; its existence is due to form. "Whatever you are saying, it is just a phenomenon which is identical with the principle. They are all without obstruction and the fruit of the way to 'bodhi' is also like that. Whatever arises in the mind is called form; when one knows all forms to be empty, then birth is identical with no-birth. If one realizes this mind, then one can always wear one’s robes and eat one’s food. Nourishing the womb of sagehood, one spontaneously passes one's times: what else is there to do?
Ma-tsu [709-788]: Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-Tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an, 1992
Submitted May 08, 2019 at 06:30PM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2JqvOMT
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