All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible...[It] has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist...It transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you—begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured...[S]entient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp Mind...They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them...It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifested in the Buddhas.
An auspicious start clearing the fog. Nothing to add. I took away the examples.
Zen Master Yunmen #282
Yunmen visited Caoshan. Caoshan instructed his community as follows: "People everywhere all just adopt set patterns. Why don't you tell them a turning phrase in order to make them get rid of their doubt?"
Yunmen asked Caoshan, "Why is it that one does not know of the existence of that which is most immediate?"
Caoshan: "Just because it is the most immediate!"
Yunmen: "And how can one become truly intimate with it?"
Caoshan: "By not turning toward it."
Yunmen: "But can one know the most immediate if one does not face it?"
Caoshan: "It's then that one knows it best."
Yunmen consented: "Exactly, exactly!"
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