‘Furthermore, all ways of earning a living and all arts and crafts are the form and functioning of this bright universal wisdom. There is no distinction whatsoever.’
Kusan Sunim
Mahayana
This One Vehicle is the One Mind, by Bassui Tokushō
All of you! If you want to return to your homes, simply wake up to your true nature.
Morning meditation — If one universally shines over all sentient beings.
‘Again I ask you, can you fully comprehend the Unmoving Ground you were originally endowed with before your parents gave birth to you? If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas and Patriarchs of the three time-periods.’
Master Bojo
Morning meditation — The tongue which produces careless speech.
‘The tongue which produces careless speech is like an axe used to kill oneself.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas.
‘Again I ask you, can you fully comprehend the Unmoving Ground you were originally endowed with before your parents gave birth to you? If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas and Patriarchs of the three time-periods.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — All things are Buddha-things.
‘“All things are Buddha-things.” And why? Because what was preached by the Tathāgata, O Subhūti, as all things, that was preached as no-things; and therefore all things are called Buddha-things.’
Avalokiteshvara
Morning meditation —Our practice of what is meaningful.
‘Our practice of what is meaningful
May be definite or indefinite.
Our thoughts about giving things up,
And taking them on,
Are like stars.’
The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva
Morning meditation —Self-occurring wisdom is pure from the beginning.
‘Self-occurring wisdom is pure from the beginning.
It is free from habitual patterns,
Even those of the five inexplicables,
Just like a lotus is free from mud.
Use this to teach the way of enlightenment!’
The Tathagata
The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva
Buddhism now 