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Huineng Biography

Huineng (Chinese: 惠能; pinyin: Huìnéng, 638–713) was a Buddhist monk who is one of the most important figures in Chan Buddhism according to standard hagiographies. Huineng has been traditionally viewed as the Sixth and Last Patriarch of Chan Buddhism.

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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

Betray, Buddhist, Defending, Mind, Mistake, Wisdom

The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.

Lived, Mouthed, Truth, Truth Is

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight

Alight, Dust, Mirror, Mirrors, Stand, Tree

It is your minds that are moving.

Mind, Minds, Moving

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

Confused, Duality, Experience, Ideas, Reality

When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.

Mind, Refrain, Samadhi, Thinking, Thoughtlessness, Views

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

Finger, Like, Moon, Needs, Teaching, Words

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.

Bitterness, Essence, Mind, Mundane

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Darkness, Dispel, Ignorance, Lamp, Thousand, Years

Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.

Alike, Forth, Good Friend, Light, Names, Substance

Before you think good or evil, who are you?

Evil, Good, Think, Thinking

Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen.

Emptying, Opposites, Order, Self, Thought, Thoughts

The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

Fall, Heaven, Huge, Moon, Mountains, Stars

Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

Coming, Determination, Meditation, Right, Together, Way

Since in reality all is void, Whereon can the dust fall?

Dust, Fall, Reality, Void

Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.

Found, Impure, Mind, Pure

Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon's location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?

Look, Looks, Moon, Right, Sky, Words