It Is Your Mind That Moves

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It is not the wind that moves. It is not the flag that moves. It is your mind that moves.

license: public_domain

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
• Platform Sutra: On Self-Naturesermon

From Platform Sutra

• Your Original Face
• Platform Sutra: On Self-Nature
• 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

  Platform Sutra: It Is Your Mind That Moves