What Does 'Buddha' Mean?

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Pārśva said: 'People ask what the word Buddha means. It means awakened. Then they ask: awakened to what? To this—to what is here right now, before the question arose. The word is just a finger pointing at your own face.'

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Parshva

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Parshva

• The Vow of Pārśvadialogue

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 1, Parshva chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: What Does 'Buddha' Mean?