Chan / Seon / Zen

Morning meditation — It’s Best to Look.

‘Instead of following other people’s spiritual guidance, it’s best to look to your own ordinary straightforward mind.’

Bankei

‘At every moment, where language can’t go, that’s your mind.’

Bodhidharma

‘A treader of the Path should do away with all thoughts, good as well as evil ones.’

Hui Neng

‘Everybody’s mind is the Buddha Mind, which is originally enlightened, so it’s not something that is “born” or that “dies”.’

Bankei

‘Leave knowing and understandings, go to that greatness of space. When you come to that vastness, there’s no speck of Buddhism in your heart.’

Zen Master Bukko

‘It is merely as an expedient that the Essence of Mind is so called; it cannot really be named by any name.’

Hui Neng

‘You should not misinterpret the text, and come to the conclusion that Buddha-knowledge is something special to Buddha not common to us all.’

Hui Neng

‘Mind doesn’t appear as a monk or a layman, an elder or a novice, a sage or a fool, a Buddha or a mortal.’

Bodhidharma