Huineng
A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.Collection: Moon
The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.Collection: Stars
Look within!... The secret is inside you.Collection: Inspirational
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.Collection: Buddhist
Before you think good or evil, who are you?Collection: Thinking
Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon's location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?Collection: Moon
The meaning of life is to see.Collection: Life
Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.Collection: Confused
The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.Collection: Truth Is
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.Collection: Teaching
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.Collection: Thinking
Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen.Collection: Self
Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?Collection: Teaching
Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.Collection: Mind
Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.Collection: Determination
To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.Collection: Essence
Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.Collection: Good Friend
The secret is within your self.Collection: Self
Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.Collection: Enlightening
Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall?Collection: Fall
It is your minds that are moving.Collection: Moving