Wednesday, 5 June 2019

Foyan Qingyuan [1067-1120]: When you see in this way, are you not independent and free?

There is nothing in my experience that is not true. If there were anything at all untrue, how could I presume to guide others? As for you, obviously there is something not true; that is why you come to someone to find certainty.

There is no particular pathway into it. If your own self is clear and everything is It, when you visit a teacher you do not see that there is a teacher; when you inquire of yourself, you do not see that you have a self. When you see in this way, are you not independent and free?

Foyan Qingyuan [1067-1120]: Instant Zen: Waking Up in the Present, translated by Thomas Cleary, 1994



Submitted June 05, 2019 at 09:13PM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2wF1FSt

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