Those who seek for the Tathagata should seek for the self. For “self” and “Buddha” are synonymous…
Chan / Seon / Zen
At the beginning you have to take up a koan, Zen master Bukko
Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed. It is going into one’s true original nature before father or mother were born. The self seeks to grasp the self, but it is already the self, so why should it go to grasp the self? Look into it…
Only One Way, by Trevor Leggett
It is worth knowing that one can get hypnotized into thinking that there is only one way to do a thing correctly.
This life Limitless. Tangen Harada Roshi
This life Limitless, by Tangen Harada Roshi, Bukkoku-ji
What is a hua t’ou? Master Hsu Yun
In ancient times, the Patriarchs and Ancestors directly pointed at the mind for realisation of self-nature and attainment of Buddhahood. Like Bodhidharma who ‘quietened the mind’ and the Sixth Patriarch who only talked about ‘perception of self-nature’, all of them just advocated the outright cognizance (of it) without any more ado…
Chant the Wind, by Kusan Sunim
I venture to suggest to this assembly: ‘Even in a dirty place the true nature of all beings is always pure.’ …
Kusan Sunim bio
Kusan Sunim, Korean Seon (Ch’an Zen) Buddhist master…
Self and Body Disappear, by Myoljin Sunim
After practising meditation for a while, we must enter the state of no-self. When the self is let go of, self and body disappear, and there is great brightness. If we sit and enter the state of no-self only, however, strength will not come…
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