‘Illumination has no emotional afflictions.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning meditation — Forget Conditioning.
‘Practise in emptiness and forget conditioning as dazzling light gleams from the shadows.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning Meditation — from Hongzhi Zhengjue.
When the stains from old habits are exhausted, the original light appears.
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage by Shitou
Turn around the light to shine within, then just return. The vast inconceivable source can’t be faced or turned away from.
Meet the ancestral teachers, be familiar with their instructions, bind grasses to build a hut, and don’t give up.
Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss by Hongzhi
Dwelling in peace and forgetting hardship, let go of adornments and become genuine. Chinese Zen master Hongzhi
Field of Boundless Emptiness, by Zen Master Hongzhi
The subtlety of seeing and hearing transcends mere colours and sounds. The whole affair functions without leaving traces, and mirrors without obscurations…
Buddhism now 