There Is No Mirror Stand

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Originally there is not a single thing — where could dust alight? Polish a mirror that is not there, and you make new dust by polishing.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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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 Sūtra

• The Bright Mirror Verse
• Your Original Face
• It Is Your Mind That Moves
• 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
• Platform Sūtra (Goddard, A Buddhist Bible, 1932) — selected chapters
• Platform Sūtra (Wong Mou-Lam, 1930) — selected chapters
• platform-sutra-zongbao

Sources

• contentSeeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism

  John R. McRae