Huang Po in Wan Ling Record 2 tells us what the Buddha is

Q: What is the Buddha

A: Mind is the Buddha, while the cessation of conceptual thought is the Way. Once you stop arousing concepts and thinking in terms of existence and non-existence, long and short, other and self, active and passive, and suchlike, you will find that your Mind is intrinsically the Buddha, that the Buddha is intrinsically Mind, and that Mind resembles a void. Therefore is it written that the true Dharmakāya resembles a void'. Seek for naught besides this, case your search must end in sorrow. Though you perform the six pāramitās! for as many aeons as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, adding also all the other sorts of activities for gaining Enlightenment, YOU WILL STILL FALL SHORT OF THE GOAL. Why? Because these are karma-forming activity tics and, when the good karma they produce has been exhausted, you will be born again in the ephemeral world.

Therefore is it also written: The Samboghkäya? is not a real Buddha, nor a real teacher of the Dharma. Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha!

Huang Po says the mind is the Buddha and dropping conceptualization is the way to realizing it.

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Submitted July 06, 2020 at 01:40AM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/2DdGKMT