5 quotes
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)
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)