#hui-neng

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Red Pine (translator) :: Bill Porter (author)

False views make up the world true views are the world beyond when true and false are both dismissed your buddha nature will manifest this is simply the straightforward teaching also known as the Mahayana delusion lasts countless kalpas awareness takes but an instant. - Hui-Neng

[from 'The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-Neng. Translated by Red Pine. Counterpoint Books]

[1five1two]

There is no Bodhi-tree,

Nor stand of mirror bright.

Since all is void,

Where can the dust alight?

Hui-neng

[improvingovermind]

"Good friends, when I say, 'I vow to save all beings, no matter how numberless,' it isn't Hui-neng who does the saving. Every being you can think of saves themselves, with their own nature in their own bodies."

Hui-neng, The Platform Sutra

[wisdom-and-such]

“Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the, sun, moon, stars and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad men and good men, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. “ 

 - Hui-neng 

[taoofdamien]

The secret is within yourself.

Hui-neng

[zentaku]

Good friends, if you would cultivate imperturbability, just whenever you see people, do not see their right or wrong, good or bad, faults or troubles; then your own nature is immovable. Good friends, even though the bodies of deluded people be immobile, yet when they open their mouths to speak of the right and wrong, strengths and weaknesses, good and bad of other people, they turn away from the path. If you cling to mind or cling to purity, this veils the truth. What is called sitting meditation? In this way there is no obstruction, no impediment. When outwardly, in the midst of all pleasant or unpleasant realms, thoughts do not arise in the mind, this is called “sitting.” Inwardly to see that one’s own nature does not move is called “meditation.”

Hui-Neng

[oldblogger]

A chat with ChatGPT on Vedanta and Zen...

Ron asks: How might Zen koans relate to Advaita Vedanta? ChatGPT responds: Zen koans and Advaita Vedanta, though arising from different traditions—Zen being rooted in Chinese Chan Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta in Hinduism—both deal with the nature of reality and the experience of non-duality. Despite their distinct cultural and doctrinal backgrounds, there are some striking parallels in their…

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[oldblogger]

Digging into Buddhism

On November 2 of last year, I wrote about my interest in reading the Records of the Transmission of the Lamp. It has to do with the “transmission” of the essential teachings (Dharma) of Buddhism from one teacher (“patriarch”) to the next in a line of succession beginning with Siddhartha Gautama (also Buddha Shakyamuni), starting in India and thence into China. Buddhism is practiced by a…

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