“Don't belittle the sky by looking through a pipe. The great elephant does not loiter on the rabbit's path. Great enlightenment is not concerned with details.”

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“If we hold exclusively to Emptiness, we deny the entire causal world;
All is then attributed to chance, with no ruling principle, inviting evil to prevail.
The same error occurs when one holds exclusively to the manifested, denying the Emptiness;
That would be like throwing oneself into the flames in order to avoid being drowned in the water.”

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“People hear the Buddha's doctrine of immediacy and if they accept it, the demons will be crushed as easily as a roofing tile. But if they cannot accept, what a pity!”

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“The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame;
Like space it knows no boundaries,
It is only when you hunt for it that you lose it;
You remain silent and it speaks; you speak, and it is dumb.”

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“The one Moon reflects itself wherever there is a sheet of water,
And all the moons in the waters are embraced within the one Moon.”

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“They mistake the pointing finger for the moon. They are idle dreamers lost in form and sensation.”

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“To live in nothingness is to ignore cause and effect; this chaos leads only to disaster.”

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“When you truly awaken, you have no formal merit. In the multiplicity of the relative world, you cannot find such freedom.”

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“Zen is the complete realization of mind,
The complete cutting off of delusion,
The power of wise vision penetrating directly to the unborn.”

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