Thus buddhahood will be accomplished of itself, and the aspirations of your previous practice will be fully realized.

A worldly book says that ice comes from water, yet ice can block water, and when the ice melts, the water is set free.

When you drive out false thought, that is perfect purity.

When a person who is a student looks for the dharma path through words from books and spoken phrases, he is like a lamp in the wind: it cannot dispel the darkness, and its flame cannot burn.

But if he sits in purity doing nothing, then he will realize his mind on his own.

He is like a lamp inside a house: it dispels the darkness, and its light distinguishes one thing from another.

Thus, when sentient beings are aware of the radiant purity of mind, they will be constantly merged with meditation.

The blockages at the six gates will all flow, without being caught in the winds of error.

Then the lamp of insight will be radiantly pure and will distinguish one thing from another.

Thus buddhahood will be accomplished of itself, and the aspirations of your previous practice will be fully realized.

Henceforth, you do not see the states of existence.

For one who has attained the body of the dharma in this way, all sentient beings, as numerous as dust motes, are no more than one.

For the person who is like this, ten billion eons are no more than a moment.

~Huike, A Brief Teaching on Practicing the Dharma Path.

Submitted February 09, 2022 at 02:40AM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/VBG0NrK