How can you seek for Buddha mind?

How can you seek for Buddha mind?

This was a question /u/SoulfulPunk put forth in a thread the other day.

I have a copypasta of my response followed by some Haung-Po I came across after the fact.

What I Said

Stop seeking.

That's the whole paradox of Zen. Using words/concepts to define something that has no definition, like Mind, Buddha-Nature, Tao, etc.

The Tao isnt the "Tao", it's just a word functioning as a placeholder for something that has no word and exists outside of conceptual thinking.

We can recognize this and realize that the conceptual thinking is like a finger pointing at the moon.

You dont take the finger for the moon, right? So in Zen, dont take the conceptual thinking for Mind.

From Haungbo's Dharma Transmission of Mind

Question: "At the moment of perception of and upon reaching Enlightenment, where is the Buddha?"

The master said: "From where does the question come and from where does perception arise? Conversation and silence, movement and tranquility, sound and form are all Buddha's affair, so where else can you seek a Buddha? You should not seek to put a head on a head or add a mouth to a mouth. Just let go of any discriminating view, and a mountain is a mountain, water is water, Sangha is Sangha, laymen are laymen; and these mountains, rivers, the earth, the sun, the moon and all the planets are absolutely nothing outside of your own mind.

How would you all answer this punk's question?

Submitted January 24, 2020 at 07:15PM by Jaethrandir https://ift.tt/2TRqQxW