People are scared to empty their minds
fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.
What they don’t realise is that
their own mind is the void.
- Huang Po
Confused by thoughts
we experience duality.
Unencumbered by ideas
the Enlightened see the one
Reality.
- Hui-Heng
To awaken suddenly to the fact
that your own Mind
is the Buddha,
that there is nothing
to be attained
or a single action
to be performed -
this is the
Supreme Way.
- Huang-Po
The Great Tao is without form,
The Absolute is without opposite;
It is both empty and unmoving,
It is not within the flow of Samsara;
The Three Realms do not contain it,
It is not within past, future, or present.
- Nan-chuan Pu-yuan
There are people who fear falling into emptiness.
Little do they know that demons have arisen in their minds.
They can neither empty their minds nor get enlightened.
And there are those who strongly seek enlightenment,
not understanding that seeking enlightenment
and wanting to attain Buddhahood
are all grave wandering thoughts.
One cannot cook sand hoping to eat rice.
- Master Empty Cloud (Hsu-yun)
Master Empty Cloud? Haha. Brilliant name.
