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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.

— Huangbo Xiyun Essentials of the Transmission of Mind (2005)

念念不見一切相，莫認前後三際，前際無去，今際無住，後際無來，安然端坐，任運不拘，方名解脫。

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Chapter 17: Autonomy, p. 42

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