Huineng Quotes
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
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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…
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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…
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Look within!... The secret is inside you.
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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…
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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…
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The meaning of life is to see.
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To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.
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Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.
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It is your minds that are moving.
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As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.
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Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.
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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…
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Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall?
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