Quotes by Huangbo Xiyun

Huangbo Xiyun

…concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

Feelings

Mind

Words Of Wisdom

…Therefore it is said: ‘The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.’

Mind

Perception

Said

‘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

Development

Misunderstood

People

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.

Mysterious

Perception

Understanding

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.

Mind

Names

People

As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the ‘illusory’ world and speak only of Enlightenment. Or else they chatter of cosmic activities leading to transformations, while neglecting the Substance from which they spring–indeed, there is NEVER any profit in discussion.

Reality

Roots

Spring

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

Dharma

Heart

Consider the sunlight. You may say that it is near, yet if you pursue it from world to world you will never catch it. You may say it is far, yet it is right before your eyes. Chase it and it always eludes you; run from it and it is always there. From this example you can understand how it is with the true nature of things.

Elude You

Eye

Running

Here it is – right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.

Missing

Right Now

Thinking

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.

Here And There

Mind

Positivity

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Elude You

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Glimpse

Heart

Here And There

Independence

Joy

Likes And Dislikes

Long

Mind

Missing

Misunderstood

Mysterious

Names

Nature

Peaceful

People

Perception

Positivity

Real

Reality

Right Now

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Thinking

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Quotes by Huangbo Xiyun

Huangbo Xiyun

…concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

…Therefore it is said: ‘The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.’

‘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

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.

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.

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

Here it is – right now. Start thinking about it and you miss 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.

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