Platform Sutra: On Self-Nature

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Good friends, the wisdom of bodhi and prajna is originally possessed by worldly people themselves. It is only because their minds are deluded that they cannot attain enlightenment by themselves and must seek the help of a good and learned friend to show them how to see their own nature. Good friends, if you meet enlightenment, wisdom is realized. Good friends, my teaching of the Dharma takes meditation and wisdom as its basis. Never under any circumstances say mistakenly that meditation and wisdom are different; they are a unity, not two things. Meditation itself is the substance of wisdom; wisdom itself is the function of meditation.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Dajian Huineng

Lineage: Early Chan

By Dajian Huineng

• A Beardless Foreignerkoan
• Do Not Think Good, Do Not Think Not-Goodkoan
• Not The Wind, Not The Flagkoan
• Your Original Faceproverb
• It Is Your Mind That Movesproverb

From Platform Sutra

• Your Original Face
• It Is Your Mind That Moves
• Platform Sutra: No-Thought, No-Form, No-Abiding
• The Robe and Bowl Transmission to Huineng
• Think Neither Good Nor Evil
• There Is No Mirror Stand
• Without Thinking Good or Evil
• Not the Flag, Not the Wind
• Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liùzǔ Tánjīng)

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Platform Sutra, section on Prajna

  Platform Sutra: Platform Sutra: On Self-Nature