Just felt like stopping in to drop a little Huang Po. I appreciate what a good summary this passage is:
"Our original Buddha-Nature is, in highest truth, devoid of any atom of objectivity. It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy---and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awaking to it yourself. That which is before you is it, in all its fullness, utterly complete. There is naught beside. Even if you go through all the stages of a Bodhisattva's progress towards Buddhahood, one by one; when at last, in a single flash, you attain to full realization, you will only be realizing the Buddha-Nature which has been with you all the time; and by all the fore-going stages you will have added to it nothing at all. You will come to look upon those aeons of work and achievements as no better than unreal actions performed in a dream. That is why the Tathagata said: 'I truly attained nothing from complete, unexcelled Enlightenment. Had there been anything attained, Dipamkara Buddha would not have made the prophecy concerning me. He also said: 'This Dharma is absolutely without distinctions, neither high nor low, and its name is Bodhi.' It is pure Mind, which is the source of everything and which, whether appearing as sentient beings or as Buddhas, as the rivers and mountains of the world which has form, as that which is formless, or as penetrating the whole universe, is absolutely without distinctions, there being no such entities as selfness and otherness."
__Zen Teaching of Huang Po (On the Transmission of Mind Translated by John Blofeld)__
Hope the best for all of you hanging out at r/zen
- R.S.M.
Submitted May 17, 2020 at 06:30AM by royalsaltmerchant https://ift.tt/3dN6ah6
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