Fwd: Huang Po on enlightenment.

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GuruRatings , " adithya_comming "

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Q: " At this moment, while erroneous thoughts are

arising in my mind, where is the Buddha? "

 

A: " At this moment, you are conscious of those

erroneous thoughts. Well, that consciousness is

the Buddha! "

 

 

~Huang Po

 

* * *

 

Your true nature is something never

lost to you even in moments of

delusion, nor is it gained at the

moment of Enlightenment. It is the

Nature of the Bhutatathata. In it is

neither delusion nor right understanding.

 

~Huang Po

 

* * *

 

 

Our original Buddha-Nature is, in highest truth, devoid of any trace

of objectivity. It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious

and mysterious peaceful joy-and that is all. Enter deeply in it by

awakening to it yourself. That which is before you is it, in all its

fullness, utterly complete.

 

There is naught besides. Even if you go through all the stages of a

Bodhisattva's progress toward Buddhahood, one by one, when at last,

in a single flash, you attain to full realization, you will only be

realizing the Buddha-Nature that has been with you all the time; and

by all the foregoing stages you will have added to it nothing at all.

 

You will come to look upon those aeons of work and achievement as no

better than unreal actions performed in a dream. That is why the

Tathagata [the Buddha] said: I truly attained nothing from complete,

unexcelled Enlightenment.

 

* * *

 

 

Only awake to the One Mind and there is nothing whatever to be

attained. This pure Mind, the source of everything, shines forever

and on all with the brilliance of its own perfection.

 

But the people of the world do not awake to it, regarding only that

which sees, hears, feels and knows as mind.... If they would only

eliminate all conceptual thought in a flash, that source-substance

would manifest itself like

a sun....

 

* * *

 

In the teaching of the Three Vehicles it is clearly explained that

the ordinary and Enlightened minds are illusions. You don't

understand. All this clinging to the idea of things existing is to

mistake vacuity for the truth. How can such conceptions not be

illusory? Being illusory, they hide Mind from you.

 

If you would only rid yourselves of the concepts of ordinary and

Enlightened, you would find that there is no other Buddha than the

Buddha in your own Mind. When Bodhidharma came from the West, he

just pointed out that the substance of which all men are composed is

the Buddha. You people go on misunderstanding; you hold to concepts

such as " ordinary " and " Enlightened, " directing your thoughts

outwards where they gallop about like horses! All this amounts to

beclouding your own minds!

 

So I tell you Mind is the Buddha. As soon as thought or sensation

arises, you fall into dualism. Beginningless time and the present

moment are the same. There is no this and no that. To understand

this truth is called complete and unexcelled Enlightenment.

 

~ Huang Po

 

* * *

 

Q: Illusion can hide from us our own mind, but up to now you have not

taught us how to get rid of illusion.

 

A: The arising and the elimination of illusion are both illusory.

Illusion is not something rooted in Reality; it exists because of

your dualistic thinking. If you will only cease to indulge in

opposed concepts such as " ordinary " and " Enlightened, " illusion will

cease of itself. And then if you still want to destroy it wherever

it may be, you will find that there is not a hairsbreadth left of

anything on which to lay hold. This is the meaning of: " I will let

go with both hands, for then I shall certainly discover the Buddha in

my mind. "

 

 

~ Huang Po

 

 

* * *

 

To awaken suddenly to the fact that your own Mind is the Buddha,

that there is nothing to be attained or a single action to be

performed - this is the Supreme Way; this really is to be a Buddha.

It is only to be feared that you students of the Way, by the coming

into existence of a single thought, may raise a barrier between

yourselves and the Way. From thought-instant to thought-instant,

no form; from thought-instant to thought-instant, no activity - that

is to be a Buddha!

 

If you students of the Way wish to become Buddhas, you need study no

doctrines whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and

attaching yourselves to anything. Where nothing is sought, this

implies Mind unborn; where no attachment exists, this implies Mind

not destroyed; and that which is neither

born nor destroyed is the Buddha.

 

 

The eighty-four thousand methods for countering the eighty-four

thousand forms of delusion are merely figures of speech for drawing

people towards the Gate. In fact, none of them have real

existence. Relinquishment of everything is the Dharma, and he who

understands this is a Buddha, but the relinquishment of ALL

delusions leaves no Dharma in which to lay hold.

 

~ Huang Po

 

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