Everything Has Buddha-nature
Emptiness means no doer, no perceiver, there are only the mere appearance of conditioned phenomena. In other words: everything is absolutely determined by mechanical causality and we are all just robots.
Genuine Arising In Pure Mind
When it is directly perceived that appearances do not appear from anywhere, do not stay anywhere, and do not go anywhere, then there is nowhere to abide, hence the mind is realised as always ordinary.
Genuine Significance of Emptiness
Impermanence is a perfect entry. That there has never an experience arisen or disappeared, that is when the lack of an exit is seen.
Essentials of Sudden Enlightenment
Keeping an eye on something is only tiresome. Forcing a thought to stay is an impossible task. Eat, drink, sleep - the real duties of life. Asking for more or hoping for less is truly foolish.
No Mind, No Things, No Action, No Effort
There are already minds conceiving things, hence acting with effort. The peace and rest of the Buddha lies only within this endless struggle of life. Effortlessness is not the cessation of effort, only the immediate realisation that actions never had any value, as meanings are arbitrary concepts without basis. That is why Zhaozhou never wanted to hear the word "Buddha", and Yunmen had rather murdered Shakyamuni at his infancy than let him trouble beings with lies.
Dry Wood Putting Forth Blossoms
Chasing the sweet, running from the bitter, taste buds cannot be killed, food cannot be avoided. Neither eternal enjoyment nor permanent apathy can be forced on oneself. The mind never stays, feelings are always untamed. The wild flowers are blown by the winds until they wither, still you don't hear them cursing heaven and earth. It is not a matter of forbearance or inner strength, only knowing that honey and beer are both yellow.
Patient-Rest in True Suchness
Look at sights, sounds, feelings, and thoughts:
There is none that stays even for a moment.
One may look for that patient rest for ten kalpas,
But there will be no solid point found anywhere.
Deliverance by Chan Dharma Which Is Like a Flower in the Sky
Deluded thoughts let go of themselves, that is the mind's original purity. Attachment is the deluded attempt at repeating the past, so just consider where last night's dream is now. Do not try to be free, liberty is the natural state. It is not that you can do what you want, it is that desire itself is conditioned. Automatically this body is the emanation of primordial compassion the moment one recognises there is nothing to turn around to.
Emptiness means no doer, no perceiver, there are only the mere appearance of conditioned phenomena. In other words: everything is absolutely determined by mechanical causality and we are all just robots.
Genuine Arising In Pure Mind
When it is directly perceived that appearances do not appear from anywhere, do not stay anywhere, and do not go anywhere, then there is nowhere to abide, hence the mind is realised as always ordinary.
Genuine Significance of Emptiness
Impermanence is a perfect entry. That there has never an experience arisen or disappeared, that is when the lack of an exit is seen.
Essentials of Sudden Enlightenment
Keeping an eye on something is only tiresome. Forcing a thought to stay is an impossible task. Eat, drink, sleep - the real duties of life. Asking for more or hoping for less is truly foolish.
No Mind, No Things, No Action, No Effort
There are already minds conceiving things, hence acting with effort. The peace and rest of the Buddha lies only within this endless struggle of life. Effortlessness is not the cessation of effort, only the immediate realisation that actions never had any value, as meanings are arbitrary concepts without basis. That is why Zhaozhou never wanted to hear the word "Buddha", and Yunmen had rather murdered Shakyamuni at his infancy than let him trouble beings with lies.
Dry Wood Putting Forth Blossoms
Chasing the sweet, running from the bitter, taste buds cannot be killed, food cannot be avoided. Neither eternal enjoyment nor permanent apathy can be forced on oneself. The mind never stays, feelings are always untamed. The wild flowers are blown by the winds until they wither, still you don't hear them cursing heaven and earth. It is not a matter of forbearance or inner strength, only knowing that honey and beer are both yellow.
Patient-Rest in True Suchness
Look at sights, sounds, feelings, and thoughts:
There is none that stays even for a moment.
One may look for that patient rest for ten kalpas,
But there will be no solid point found anywhere.
Deliverance by Chan Dharma Which Is Like a Flower in the Sky
Deluded thoughts let go of themselves, that is the mind's original purity. Attachment is the deluded attempt at repeating the past, so just consider where last night's dream is now. Do not try to be free, liberty is the natural state. It is not that you can do what you want, it is that desire itself is conditioned. Automatically this body is the emanation of primordial compassion the moment one recognises there is nothing to turn around to.
