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Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening

by Hui Hai

Translation of the

Tun Wu Ju Tao Yao Mên Lun

and Tsung Ching Record

ISBN 13: 978-0946672035

ISBN 10: 0946672035

Buddhist Publishing Group

Published: 1962, 1987

Paperback, 188 pages.

£8.95 / $16.95

Rendered into English by John Blofeld

Foreword by Charles Luk

This eighth-century classic is a complete translation of Hui Hai’s teachings. He was one of the early Chan/Zen masters (along with Ma Tsu and Huang Po) following on from Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch.

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Extracts:

Sudden Illumination means deliverance while still in this life. How shall I make you understand that? You may be compared to lion cubs, which are genuine lions from the time of their birth; for, with those who undertake to become suddenly illumined, it is just like that. The moment they practise it, they enter the Buddha-stage, just as the shoots put forth by bamboos in spring will have grown to resemble the parent plants without the least difference remaining even before spring has departed. (more…)

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