Bill Porter on buddha
Bill Porter6 quotes“When you’re blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you’re aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.”
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In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
Bill PorterBill Porter This building we’re in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can’t get out.
Bill PorterBill Porter Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don’t keep reading the book.
Bill PorterBill Porter When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is ‘Zen.’ Not to be confused internally is ‘meditation.’ External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by ‘Zen meditation.
Bill PorterBill Porter There’s not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it’s useful to meditate and sometimes it isn’t.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
BodhidharmaBodhidharma If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
DogenDogen But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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