#huineng

[eelhound]

"Nagarjuna's self-negating conception of conception reverberates through subsequent Buddhism. The sixth Zen ancestor Huineng, revered as the greatest of all Zen masters, also refused to offer Buddhism as a transparent, mirror-like teaching about reality: 'If I tell you that I have a system of Dharma [teaching] to transmit to others, I am cheating you. What I do to my disciples is to liberate them from their own bondage with such devices as the case may need.' Suitable answers are given according to the temperament of the inquirer. Insofar as truth is a matter of grasping the categories that accurately and finally reflect some objective reality, all truth is error on the Buddhist path."

- David Loy, from The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory, 2003.

[libertesedosistema]

Huineng, um mestre da tradição zen budista, faz cinco constatações úteis para aqueles que preferem viver em paz: 1) Aquilo que tem sido negligenciado há muito tempo não pode ser recuperado de imediato. . 2) Males que têm se acumulado por um longo tempo não podem ser extirpados de imediato. . 3) Não se pode estar satisfeito o tempo todo. . 4) As emoções humanas podem não estar sempre certas. . 5) As adversidades não podem ser evitadas pela tentativa de fugir delas.

@O.Bodisatva

[true-person-of-no-rank]

[slamdunkelheit]

"Confusion and enlightenment are in you. Loss or gain comes from yourself. If your mouth recites and your mind practices, you ‘turn’ the Sutra, but if your mouth recites and your mind does not practice, the Sutra ‘turns’ you."

Platform sutra

[kamala-laxman]

The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed. Huineng

[sourceofthestream]

Two Chan/Zen monks argued over whether a flag or wind ultimately moves. In Engaged Buddhism, what about the winds that spread fires or the flags behind which people build a national identity opposed to those who are deemed "other"? Mind is moving! More at: https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2019/10/mind-is-moving.html

[om--namah-shivaya]

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

Huineng

[cobotis]

A clever person watches others, but he watches with wisdom, not with ignorance... If one watches with wisdom, one can learn much... But if one watches with ignorance, one can only find faults...

Ajahn Chah