‘If you stop running after fleeting thoughts, you’ll be no different from the Buddha.’
Zen Master Rinzai
‘If you stop running after fleeting thoughts, you’ll be no different from the Buddha.’
Zen Master Rinzai
‘The unborn does not come within the realm of time.’
Diana St Ruth
‘Buddha goes everywhere, roaming the kingdoms and talking with living beings, yet he never strays for a single thought from shining purity.’
Zen Master Rinzai
‘Followers of the way, you’re no different from Shakyamuni. [The Buddha]’
Zen Master Rinzai
‘Followers of the way, all I’m talking about is medicine appropriate for curing specific ailments.’
Zen Master Rinzai
‘Don’t trust yourselves to a companion who is only a phantom and a dream. Sooner or later it’ll return to impermanence.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Q: ‘What’s genuine insight?
Zen Master Rinzai: ‘Entering the realms of worldly and sacred, the tainted and pure, seeing them all as subject to change.’
Zen Master Rinzai
‘Nothing is more precious than to be a follower of the way who has nothing further to seek.’
Zen Master Rinzai