#lankavatara

[wisdom-and-such]

“Therefore, those who cling to the notion that Nirvana is a world by itself that is outside what is seen of the mind, have missed the teachings”

– Lankavatara Sutra

[jamabushi]

They do not enter into Nirvana/They know that the visible world/is nothing but a manifestation/of Mind itself

[monkeyironbuddha]

Lockdown Sutra: thoughts on the Lankavatara Sutra and lockdown. Zen Buddhists were originally known as Lankavataran’s because that text was so central to their thoughts on practice. It is not an easy read. Esoteric and confusing. It also helped the group to keep in touch over the last year, and connected with our practice. Https://bit.ly/mcrchanzine1

Lockdown Sutra Studying the Lankavatara Sutra during a pandemic

[unleashyourbuddhanature]

The Zen Path

What makes Zen differ from other branches of Buddhism? It’s sometimes hard to say. There’s a sense of directness in Zen. In other branches of Buddhism enlightenment is thought of as something remote, only to be attained after many lifetimes of strenuous effort. But in the Zen tradition we think of Enlightenment as something normal and natural, our true nature, something that can come to us at any…

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[ox-head]

Said  the  Blessed  One:  Even  when  there  are  no  [corresponding] objects there are words, Mahāmati; for instance, the hare’s horns, the tortoise’s hair, a barren woman’s child, etc. . . . they are neither entities nor non-entities but expressed in words. If, Mahāmati, you say that because of the reality of words the objects are, this talk lacks in sense. . . . [W]ords, Mahāmati, are an artificial creation. . . . [T]he validity of all things has nothing to do with the reality of words.

Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra

[sourceofthestream]

The world is no more than thought-construction, and there rages an ocean of views as regards ego and things.

Shakyamuni Buddha, Lankavatara Sutra

[sourceofthestream]

As the waves appear instantly on the ocean, or [images] in a mirror or a dream, so the mind is reflected in its own sense-fields.

Shakyamuni Buddha, Lankavatara Sutra

[matthewthinkington]

The ignorant and simple-minded being fascinated with their self-imaginations and erroneous reasonings, keep on dancing and leaping about, but are unable to understand the discourse by words about the truth of self-realization, much less are they able to understand the Truth itself. - Buddha, the Lankavatara Sutra