Tuesday, September 4, 2012

AUG12.5

Hui Neng, the Great Grand Master, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen 

Fa Hai said," Master, what teaching are you leaving to enable confused people of the later generations to see the buddha-nature?"
The Great Master, " Our minds inherently have b
uddha in them; your own inner buddha is the real buddha. If there were no buddha-mind, where would we look for the real buddha? Your own mind is buddha. Do not doubt anymore. There is nothing external that can establish anything - it is all the original mind conceiving all sorts of things. That is why scripture says,' When the mind is aroused, all sorts of arise; when the mind is quiescent, all sorts of phenomena pass away.' "

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