My Mind Is Not at Peace

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Huike said to Bodhidharma, "My mind is not at peace. Please pacify my mind." Bodhidharma said, "Bring me your mind and I will pacify it." Huike said, "I have searched for my mind, and I cannot find it." Bodhidharma said, "There, I have pacified your mind."

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Speaker
  Dazu Huike
• Respondent
  Bodhidharma

Lineage: Early Chan

From Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues

• Thinking of Not-Thinking
• Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
• The Boat Monk's Transmission
• The Sound of Bamboo
• Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy
• Ordinary Mind Is the Way
• Nanquan Kills the Cat
• Wash Your Bowl
• The Oak Tree in the Garden
• This Very Mind Is Buddha

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Denkoroku, Case 33

  Traditional Zen Encounter Dialogues: My Mind Is Not at Peace