禅Dajian Huineng

proverb

Self-Nature Suffices

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

How marvelous: self-nature is originally pure. How marvelous: self-nature is originally unborn. How marvelous: self-nature is originally complete. How marvelous: self-nature is originally unmoving. How marvelous: from self-nature, the ten thousand things arise.

tr. Zen Lineage editorial

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Attribution

Lineage: Early Chan

By Dajian Huineng

Sources

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

    John R. McRae

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