This Very Mind Is Buddha

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If you want to know the Buddha, know that there is nothing apart from this mind. This very mind is the Buddha. This very mind is the dharma. The mind is not somewhere far away, to be sought through practice. It is closer than your own breath. Searching elsewhere, you miss what is already here. Returning, you find it has never been lost.

tr. After Robert E. Buswell Jr., 'Tracing Back the Radiance' (1991), pp. 143–159

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Bojo Jinul

Lineage: Jogye

By Bojo Jinul

• Encouragement to Practiceverse
• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivationpractice-instruction
• The Mind Is Buddhaproverb
• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivationproverb
• Tracing Back the Radianceproverb

From Susimkyŏl (Secrets on Cultivating the Mind)

• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation

Sources

• contentSusimkyŏl 修心訣 (Secrets on Cultivating the Mind)

  Pojo Chinul (Jinul)

  Susimkyŏl, section on the nature of mind as Buddha

  Susimkyŏl (Secrets on Cultivating the Mind): This Very Mind Is Buddha