No Grades Among Buddhas

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There are no grades among Buddhas; you are not closer or farther by years of sitting. The day you forget the question of distance, you have arrived.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Huangbo Xiyun

Lineage: Linji

By Huangbo Xiyun

• Cease to Cherish Opinionsproverb
• On the Transmission of Mind: One Mindsermon
• No Distinction Between Ordinary and Holysermon
• The One Mind That All Buddhas Teachdialogue
• One Mind, Nothing Elseproverb

Sources

• contentThe Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism

  Heine, Steven & Dale S. Wright (eds.)

  pp. 3–28