Meeting the Self

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Gaoan said: "You have been running around seeking the Buddha outside yourself for countless kalpas. Have you found him? Stop running, sit down, and for the first time you will meet the one who has been searching all along. That one is already complete."

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Gaoan Dayu

Lineage: Yunmen

From Traditional Zen Sayings

• A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures
• Thirty Blows
• A Day Without Work Is a Day Without Eating
• Mountains Are Mountains
• Cease and Desist
• Die While Alive
• The Whole Universe Is the Eye
• The Directness of Realization
• The Barrier of Words
• The Great Doubt Block

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Jingde Chuandeng Lu, Gaoan Dayu chapter

  Traditional Zen Sayings: Meeting the Self