Sublime

but one receives the impression that whereas the Pali Canon would unlock the door to nirvana by sheer effort, the Mahayana would jiggle the key until it turns smoothly.

Earlier, the Buddha said that a bodhisattva does not set forth on the bodhisattva path. He now says that having reached the end of that path neither does a buddha teach. This is because buddhas are not only not attached to such spatial entities as self and being or such temporal entities as life and rebirth, they are also not attached to such conce

Chi-fo says, “The reason Subhuti asked these questions was because he realized that in the Buddha’s everyday actions of wearing his robe, eating, washing his feet, and sitting down, he never stopped manifesting the marvelous workings of his true mind and that all such instruction contained the essence of perfect prajna. Hence, Subhuti’s words of pr

WU CH’ENG says, “The salvation of sages does not involve salvation, for if someone is saved, someone is abandoned. Hence, sages do not save anyone at all. And because they do not save anyone, they do not abandon anyone. To ‘cloak’ means to use an outer garment to cover an inner garment. If the work of salvation becomes apparent, and people see it,

“A roshi is a person who has actualized that perfect freedom which is the potentiality for all human beings. He exists freely in the fullness of his whole being. The flow of his consciousness is not the fixed repetitive patterns of our usual self-centered consciousness, but rather arises spontaneously and naturally from the actual circumstances of

And he knew that because of their delight in verbal instruction, beings in future ages might become confused by their preference for words over meaning or by their attachment to the practices of lesser paths or other teachings,

(A good laugh is the best way to kill the Buddha.)