Bound to Nothing at All

His mind is completely empty of impurity and purity;

he does not dwell in bondage nor does he dwell in emancipation.

He is without any understanding of the conditioned or the unconditioned.

His mind’s measure being universal sameness, while abiding in samsara he is free.

He does not make any relation whatsoever with false illusions, the worldly passions, the realm of the skandhas, birth and death, or any of the sense-entrances.

Having transcended these, there is nothing he depends upon; he is bound to nothing at all.

He leaves or stays without hindrance; he goes and comes in birth and death as through an open door.

~ Baizhang - The Record of Linji, R.F. Sasaki, p. 228

The master said, “One thought of doubt in your mind is Māra.

But if you realize that the ten thousand dharmas never come into being, that mind is like a phantom, that not a speck of dust nor a single thing exists, that there is no place that is not clean and pure—this is Buddha.

~ Linji - The Record of Linji, R.F. Sasaki, p. 190

Thus the sutra says, “In truth there is not the least dharma to be obtained, and that is why it is called supreme, perfect enlightenment.”

If you understand the meaning of this, you know that the buddha-way and the demon-way are both amiss.

~ Huangbo - The Record of Linji, R.F. Sasaki, p. 190

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