No Outside Dharma

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Huguo said: "There is no Dharma outside the mind, and there is no mind outside the Dharma. When you look for the mind, you cannot find it. When you stop looking, it is everywhere. This is not something that can be given or received—each person must verify it for themselves."

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Huguo Shoucheng

Lineage: Guiyang

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, Huguo Shoucheng chapter

  Traditional Zen Sayings: No Outside Dharma