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If you love the holy and hate the ordinary, you float and sink in the sea of birth and death. Affliction exists because of mind: if you have no mind, how can affliction hold you? If you do not try to discriminate and grasp forms, naturally you find the Path that instant.

— Linji Yixuan

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There is no Buddha that can be sought, no Path that can be achieved, no Dharma that can be attamed.

Even if they are there, they are all objects and scenes dependent on transformation [for their temporary being].

In my view, there are no buddhas and no sentient beings, no ancient and no modern.

Students do not understand because they cling to names and sayings. They are obstructed by the names ‘ordinary’ and ‘holy.’

All phenomena worldly and world-transcending are without a real fixed identity of their own, they have no inherent nature. There are just empty names, and names are empty too.

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