#sixth patriarch

[jamabushi]

There Has Never Been a Single Thing™

[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

[jamabushi]

Enlightenment is not a tree, 
The bright mirror has no stand; 
Originally there is not one thing— 
What place could there be for dust?

[oldblogger]

Words cannot recreate ‘just-as-it-as-is-right-now’…

Photo by Jessica Rothman in Mestia, Georgia

… yet, in vain, we continue to issue words.

I am rereading Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals, by Peter Matthiessen. One chapter is an account of his journey to the land of Dolpo on the Tibetan plateau. He later expanded this journal-chapter to create his popular The Snow Leopard.

Throughout the book Matthiessen describes how his teachers and fellow…

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[zentaku]

It is nonsense to insist that we cannot achieve enlightenment without learned and pious teachers. Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.

Hui Neng