The strength of false thought is great, so you ought to be afraid of it. And it is necessary that you get away from it. You want to get away from your false thought, but how much strength do you have? Its strength is waterproof; your strength only amounts to a single drop…
The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment.
Baso came to a realisation and his mind was transcendent. After this encounter, he became Nangaku’s student and practised with him for ten years.
Awakening is the very core of the Buddha’s teaching, but if we are thinking about awakening we are separating ourselves from it…
These manuscripts, found in the caves of Dunhuang, include the only surviving texts of a living ‘Tibetan Chan’ tradition. They give us a snapshot of the early Chan tradition from the eighth and tenth centuries…
Shen Hui answered, ‘”The absence of thought” is a method for the wise, but if the foolish were to cultivate it, they would no longer be foolish.’
No matter how much we think about the past, it isn’t possible to change it…
In our zazen we have to let go of any kind of thinking, even thinking about dharma.
Buddhism now 