Great quote from Zen master on the nature of reality

[Someone here]

Here's a great quote from and old zen-master called Huangbo that asserts the oneself..oneness..nonduality .etc...without falling into the trap of solipsism of thinking the ego is all that exists .

"All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measure, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you - begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp Mind. Even though they do their utmost for a full aeon, they will not be able to attain it. They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind is the Buddha and the Buddha is all living beings. It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifest in the Buddhas."

You can find it by googling Huangbo.🙏

 

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

35 minutes ago, Someone here said:

"All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance. It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measure, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you - begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is the Buddha, and there is no distinction between the Buddha and sentient things, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp Mind. Even though they do their utmost for a full aeon, they will not be able to attain it. They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind is the Buddha and the Buddha is all living beings. It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifest in the Buddhas."

Yup, nailed it.

[Breakingthewall]

exactly . simple and true. Awakening is opening yourself to that, to unlimited existence, it cannot be conceptualized, it can only be done, it is what we are and it is right here all the time. It is not understanding or knowing, it is going beyond the mind, it is  infinity alive

Edited November 30, 2023 by Breakingthewall

[CoolDreamThanks]

The teachings of Huan Po have a fundamental error within them, as all sects of Buddhism, since Buddha himself didn't realize Love. The highest state of Buddhism, as well as within the teachings of Huang Po, is described as niether perception nor non perception. Buddha said that when you reach this state, you are enlightened and liberated. Not the case, Buddha had to reincarnate.  

The ideas about Oneness are correct, of course, but such teachings don't bring you home. 

[Someone here]

@Bazooka Jesus @Breakingthewall  glad you guys found it insightful. 🙏 

2 minutes ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

The teachings of Huan Po have a fundamental error within them, as all sects of Buddhism, since Buddha himself didn't realize Love. The highest state of Buddhism, as well as within the teachings of Huang Po, is described as niether perception nor non perception. Buddha said that when you reach this state, you are enlightened and liberated. Not the case, Buddha had to reincarnate.  

The ideas about Oneness are correct, of course, but such teachings don't bring you home. 

It's true from a certain perspective which is the nondual perspective that there is no boundaries between anything. But I wouldn't take this too far in our mundane everyday life ..otherwise we will go bananas.  There is  some truth to that perspective. Just as there is more practical truth to dealing with reality as a bunch of separate objects . I'm honestly bored of rehashing this over and over. 

[CoolDreamThanks]

1 minute ago, Someone here said:

@Bazooka Jesus @Breakingthewall  glad you guys found it insightful. 🙏 

It's true from a certain perspective which is the nondual perspective that there is no boundaries between anything. But I wouldn't take this too far in our mundane everyday life ..otherwise we will go bananas.  There is  some truth to that perspective. Just as there is more practical truth to dealing with reality as a bunch of separate objects . I'm honestly bored of rehashing this over and over. 

Nah you didn't get anything I was saying. Whatever, I guess.

[Someone here]

@CoolDreamThanks sorry then ..can you please elaborate on what you mean other than his perspective is limited and doesn't encapsulate the whole Truth ?

[Breakingthewall]

2 hours ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

Buddha himself didn't realize Love

What you call love he calls life. Many have realized what the unfathomable infinity is, it is not that difficult since it is the only thing that exists, it is existence. The words to name it vary but the realization is always the same. Buddhists, Christian and Muslim mystics, Native Americans with the great spirit, Australian aborigines, me, anyone who really wants to break the limits of the mind. The strange thing is that there are not more people who perceive the unfathomable in everyday reality, but I suppose that the vital impulse of survival and evolution is so absorbing that it makes it extremely difficult.

[CoolDreamThanks]

13 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

What you call love he calls life. Many have realized what the unfathomable infinity is, it is not that difficult since it is the only thing that exists, it is existence. The words to name it vary but the realization is always the same. Buddhists, Christian and Muslim mystics, Native Americans with the great spirit, Australian aborigines, me, anyone who really wants to break the limits of the mind. The strange thing is that there are not more people who perceive the unfathomable in everyday reality, but I suppose that the vital impulse of survival and evolution is so absorbing that it makes it extremely difficult.

What are you blabbering about 😄 are all of your 8 thousand posts like that? God help people who listen to you. 

You haven't read enough Buddhist scriptures to talk. Buddha didn't reach Love, he reached Void and he doesn't talk about enlightenment as "life". 

It's crazy how you talk about things you have no clue about. 

Just a usual minion of the illusion, I guess. 

[Breakingthewall]

2 minutes ago, CoolDreamThanks said:

What are you blabbering about 😄 are all of your 8 thousand posts like that? God help people who listen to you. 

You haven't read enough Buddhist scriptures to talk. Buddha didn't reach Love, he reached Void and he doesn't talk about enlightenment as "life". 

It's crazy how you talk about things you have no clue about. 

Just a usual minion of the illusion, I guess. 

Yeah, you sound full of love. You are an example, good work. 

Anyway, I was talking about the fragment that the op posted. 

Edited November 30, 2023 by Breakingthewall

[Breakingthewall]

3 hours ago, Someone here said:

the Buddha is all living beings

If you had opened your being to the life that is the living infinite, you would understand it. Just this fragment is enough. and you wouldn't be the bitter guy you are, full of ego and rage. The void is life and is love. Is the source of the reality, the cosmos. Pure existence alive. Anyone who has broken the barriers of the human condition can realize easily. Just the reality. 

Edited November 30, 2023 by Breakingthewall

[Someone here]

20 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

and you wouldn't be the bitter guy you are, full of ego and rage.

No you 

[Breakingthewall]

4 minutes ago, Someone here said:

No you 

Sorry, I was referring to@CoolDreamThanks , who is quite full of shit . wrong quote. Not you, you are in the right path, not easy to avoid all deceptions, but we are doing

Edited November 30, 2023 by Breakingthewall

[Osaid]

6 hours ago, Someone here said:

It does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measure, names, traces and comparisons.

🎯🎯🎯

[Osaid]

“Know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity.”

“Discard all you have acquired as being no better than a bed spread for you when you were sick.”

“In these days people only seek to stuff themselves with knowledge… All you can call them is people who suffer from indigestion… All the concepts you have formed in the past must be discarded and replaced by void.”

“The Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to retention of concepts and so the Way is entirely misunderstood… The first step is to refrain from knowledge-based concepts.”

“The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.”

“Here it is—right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”

“People are afraid 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.”

“Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment.”

"The enlightened ones are neither attached to nor detached from their senses and thoughts."

"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." 

"Words used to attract the dull of wit are not to be relied on."

"Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone will you be on the right road to the Gate."

"Our original Buddha-Nature is, in highest truth, devoid of any trace of objectivity. It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy-and that is all. Enter deeply in it by awakening to it yourself. That which is before you is it, in all its fullness, utterly complete. There is naught besides. Even if you go through all the stages of a Bodhisattva's progress toward Buddhahood, one by one, when at last, in a single flash, you attain to full realization, you will only be realizing the Buddha-Nature that has been with you all the time; and by all the foregoing stages you will have added to it nothing at all. You will come to look upon those aeons of work and achievement as no better than unreal actions performed in a dream. That is why the Tathagata [the Buddha] said: I truly attained nothing from complete, unexcelled Enlightenment."

“The real Buddha has no mouth and preaches no Dharma... real hearing requires no ears”

Edited December 1, 2023 by Osaid

[Merkabah Star]

11 hours ago, Someone here said:

All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form nor appearance.

That is Absolute Solipsism. Also known as Oneness. Same thing. 
 

 

[Leo Gura]

"Old pond, frog jumps in -- plop."

-- Basho

[Osaid]

47 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

"Old pond, frog jumps in -- plop."

-- Basho

Oh man, a Zen poet? Zen masters are already cryptic enough haha. These are some other good ones I found from him:

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

"Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves."

"At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water." (he had a few of them which were in similar vain to frogs jumping into water, guess he liked the metaphor)

"Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem."

"A flute with no holes is not a flute."

"Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty."

"Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die."

"Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant."

"Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?"

"Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it."

"Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water." (No way, he was the one that dropped this banger?)

Edited December 1, 2023 by Osaid

[Leo Gura]

14 minutes ago, Osaid said:

"A flute with no holes is not a flute."

And a donut with no hole is a danish.

[Osaid]

3 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

And a donut with no hole is a danish.

Amazing.