Huangbo Xiyun Quotes

#1. Concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

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#2. When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

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#3. To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

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#4. Our original nature is ... void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

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#5. Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

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#6. The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

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#7. People are scared to empty their minds
fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.
What they don't realize is that
their own mind is the void.

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#8. All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

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#9. Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

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#10. 'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood

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#11. On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual's mind, you perceive all mind. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the Truth.

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#12. Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

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#13. Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

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#14. By the dharma is meant the heart, for there is no dharma apart from the heart.

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#15. A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

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#16. There exists just the One mind.

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