Tao Te Ching
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
By Buddha
Trans: Red Pine or Bill Porter
One of the most important influences on Chinese, Tibetan and Chan, Zen, and Japanese Buddhism in general; this Sutra describes a conversation between the Buddha and the bodhisattva of wisdom Mahāmati. It stresses the idea that consciousness is the only reality, the “Mind-only School” and describes many well-known teachings like "Buddha-nature,” "dependent origination,” and emptiness. It stresses going beyond the words to the true meaning and describes key concepts like Buddha-nature as empty of self-nature, only useful as a skillful means of teaching others. Translated by D. T. Suzuki and Red Pine
Quotes from Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
“All things we see in the world are like a dream, an image miraculously projected.”
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“As long as people desire Enlightenment and grasp after it, it means that delusion is still with them.”
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“Just as varieties of objects are seen and discriminated in dreams and in visions, so ideas and statements are discriminated erroneously and error goes on multiplying.”
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“People who foolishly cling to words and phrases are like elephants in a quagmire.”
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“The ignorant and simple-minded burn with the fires of greed, anger and folly. Obsessed with ideas of birth, growth and destruction, they fall into the habit of grasping becoming fixated and attached.”
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“The objective world, like a vision, is a manifestation of mind itself.”
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“Things are not what they seem, nor are they otherwise.”
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“Those on a spiritual path can easily become so intoxicated with the bliss of mental tranquillity that they fail to realize that the world is nothing but Mind.”
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“To see things as they really are means to transcend what are nothing but perceptions of your own mind.”
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“Transcending all the categories constructed by mind and seeing into the state of Suchness is the awakened inner consciousness.”
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“We must go beyond word and discrimination and enter upon the path of realization.”
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“When the great river quits flowing, waves no longer stir. When conceptual consciousness ceases, forms do not arise.”
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