Blood Stream Sermon- Bodhidharma [ https://selfdefinition.org/zen/Zen-Teaching-of-Bodhidharma-trans-Red-Pine-clearscan.pdf ]
Everything that appears in the three realms comes from the mind. Hence Buddhas of the past and future teach mind to mind without bothering about definitions.
Student: But if they don’t define it, what do they mean by mind?
Bodhidharma: You ask. That’s your mind. I answer. That’s my mind. If I had no mind how could I answer? If you had no mind, how could you ask? That which asks is your mind. Through endless kalpas" without beginning, whatever you do, wherever you are, that’s your real mind, that’s your real buddha. This mind is the buddha" says the same thing. Beyond this mind you’ll never find another Buddha. To search for enlightenment or nirvana beyond this mind is impossible. The reality of your own self-nature the absence of cause and effect, is what’s meant by mind. Your mind is nirvana. You might think you can find a Buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond the mind’, but such a place doesn’t exist.
ME!: No escape NOTHING binding, here I hang the lights be blinding! Searching nowhere always finding I get up votes with more rhyming!
Submitted November 16, 2019 at 11:30AM by windDrakeHex https://ift.tt/3583Htk
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