11 quotes
All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible.
The Zen Teachings of Huang Po (1958)
When all the Buddhas manifest themselves in the world, they proclaim nothing but the One Mind.
The Zen Teachings of Huang Po (1958)
Fundamentally all the teachings are nonexistent; transcendence is the Dharma, and those who understand transcendence are Buddhas. By simply transcending all the afflictions, there is no dharma that can be attained.
Essentials of the Transmission of Mind (2005)
A religious person is someone who does nothing and is truly without the numerous types of mind. There is also no meaning that can be preached. There’s nothing else, so you may go.
Essentials of the Transmission of Mind (2005)
Therefore the Buddha has said, “I have truly not attained anything in the ultimate bodhi.”
Essentials of the Transmission of Mind (2005)
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
The Zen Teachings of Huang Po (1958)
The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.
Visions from Earth (2004)
The past does not go, the present does not abide, and the future does not come. Sitting peacefully upright, letting things happen as they will—only then may you be called liberated.
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
Sending the Buddha in search of the Buddha, grasping the mind with the mind, they may exhaust themselves in striving for an entire eon but will never get it. They do not understand that if they cease their thoughts and end their thinking, the Buddha will automatically be present.
Essentials of the Transmission of Mind (2005)
Furthermore, at all times and in every moment of thought don’t perceive all the characteristics and don’t recognize past, [present,] and future, the three periods of time. The past does not go, the present does not abide, and the future does not come. Sitting peacefully upright, letting things happen as they will—only then may you be called liberated.
Essentials of the Transmission of Mind (2005)