Huineng Quotes

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

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