"When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish."
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"When the fish is caught we pay no more attention to the trap."
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"Learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything."
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"To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form"
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"Suppose a warrior, forgetting that he was already wearing his pearl on his forehead, were to seek for it elsewhere, he could travel the whole world without finding it."
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"People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void."
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"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."
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"Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought."
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"If you would spend all your time—walking, standing, sitting or lying down—learning to halt the concept-forming activities of your own mind, you could be sure of ultimately attaining the goal."
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"Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it."
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"Words used to attract the dull of wit are not to be relied on."
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"Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the #Buddhas."
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"Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people."
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"On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual's mind, you perceive all mind. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the Truth."
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"Total abstraction leading to elimination of sense-perception."
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"When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish."
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"Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood."
– Huangbo Xiyun
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"All the concepts you have formed in the past must be discarded and replaced by void."
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"...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out."
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"From morning till night, we should never rely on a single thing."
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"The past has not gone; the present is a fleeting moment; the future is not yet to come."
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"...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'"
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