Padmasambhava & Huang Po

Now, I’m looking back at years of dharma texts, specifically the books The Zen Teachings of Huang Po, and Padmasambhavas Self-Liberation Through Seeing With Naked Awareness. I still read these, am deeply moved and also find a similarity in both, as I feel they are very clear and pull the conceptual rug out from under me.

Anyone else here feel a similar, potent, dharma vibe between Huang Po and Padmasambhava? Also would you recommend something among these lines?

“Only awake to the One Mind and there is nothing whatever to be attained. This pure Mind, the source of everything, shines forever and on all with the brilliance of its own perfection. But the people of the world do not awake to it, regarding only that which sees, hears, feels and knows as mind.... If they would only eliminate all conceptual thought in a flash, that source-substance would manifest itself like a sun....” - Huang Po

“This self-originated Clear Light, which from the very beginning was in no way produced by something antecedent to it, is the child of awareness, and yet it is itself without any parents--amazing! This self-originated primordial awareness has not been created by anything--amazing! It does not experience birth nor does there exist a cause for its death--amazing! Although it is evidently visible, yet there is no one there who sees it--amazing! Although it has wandered throughout Samsara, it has come to no harm--amazing! Even though it has seen Buddhahood itself, it has not come to any benefit from this--amazing! Even though it exists in everyone everywhere, yet it has gone unrecognized--amazing! Nonetheless you hope to attain some other fruit than this elsewhere--amazing! Even though it exists within yourself (and nowhere else), yet you seek for it elsewhere--amazing!” - Padmasambhava

Submitted April 28, 2021 at 08:40PM by ZsoltKontra https://ift.tt/3u0i281