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WU CH’ENG says, “The sage seeks without seeking and studies without studying. For the truth of all things lies not in acting but in doing what is natural. By not acting, the sage shares in the naturalness of all things.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
And once the perceptions of their own minds are free of projections, they are able to dwell in the perfection of wisdom and to let go of their life and their practice and to enter the Diamond Samadhi that accompanies a tathagata’s body and that accompanies the transformation of suchness.
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
those who have freed themselves of the habit-energy and misconceptions that are perceptions of their own minds.
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being “without anxiety about imperfection.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
The meaning is that no distinction is to be made between the realization of awakening (satori) and the cultivation of Zen in meditation and action. Whereas it might be supposed that the practice of Zen is a means to the end of awakening, this is not so. For the practice of Zen is not the true practice so long as it has an end in view, and when it h
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
This is why Zen often seems to take the side of action as against reflection, and why it describes itself as “no-mind” (wu-hsin) or “no-thought” (wu-nien), and why the masters demonstrate Zen by giving instantaneous and unpremeditated answers to questions.