Sublime

The Dalai Lama’s bodhisattva vow is “Every day, think as you wake up: ‘Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I’m going to use my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts

In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

Seng-chao says, “To teach a dharma means to transmit something. And yet we are told there is no dharma taught. It isn’t that the Buddha keeps silent and doesn’t speak, only that when he speaks nothing remains. Thus, what he teaches spreads throughout the world without transgressing the truth.” To this, Hsieh Ling-yun adds, “The fact that nothing re

Hui-neng says, “This teaching is neither true nor false. This path is neither great nor small. Salvation and liberation depend on abilities. Choose among the different doctrines and hold up one for veneration. Thus follows a chapter on the true teaching of the Great Path.”

The Buddha is not attached to the appearance of buddhahood but manifests a buddha’s lack of self.

Be particularly vigilant with respect to the arising of the five hindrances: desire, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and doubt.

“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill the Buddha.”