Haungbo Xiyun: If you think that any Buddhas have attained Enlightenment by learning and practice, you will find no support for such a view.

Haungbo's Dharma of Mind Transmission

Therefore, the Dharma of Bodhi was originally non-existent, but all the Tathágata’s teaching is used as skillful means for the transformation of all sentient beings. Just as the golden-yellow leaves, used expediently to stop the crying of a baby, are not real gold, so there is a Dharma called Supreme Enlightenment. Now, if you already understand this teaching, there is no need at all to practice diligently. Just eliminate your old karma and never create new misfortune. Thus your mind will ever be very bright and clear. So abandon all of your previous views. The Vimalakirti Sutra says: Eliminate everything!' The Lotus Sutra says: Try to shovel out the dung from your mind that has been piling up for the last twenty years or so. Just eliminate the view of place and form from your mind, and automatically the dung of sophistry will be wiped out. Then and only then will you realize that the Tathágata Store is originally only void-ness. So the Sutra says: All Buddha-lands are truly void.' If you think that any Buddhas have attained Enlightenment by learning and practice, you will find no support for such a view.

Foyan's Instant Zen

The only essential thing in learning Zen is to forget mental objects and stop rumination. This is the message of Zen since time immemorial. Did not one of the Patriarchs say, “Freedom from thoughts is the source, freedom from appearances is the substance”? If you just shout and dap, when will you ever be done?

Hunger satisfied

Bellowing bears will rejoice

When prey is in sight

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