No Doctrine Outside the Mind

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If you take the scriptures as the highest, the mind is buried under words. If you take the mind as the highest and abandon the scriptures, you cut yourself off from the past masters. Practice with both, and neither becomes a cage.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Bojo Jinul

Lineage: Jogye

By Bojo Jinul

• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivationpractice-instruction
• The Mind Is Buddhaproverb
• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivationproverb
• Tracing Back the Radianceproverb
• The Three Mysterious Gatesproverb

From Susimgyeol

• Susimgyŏl (Secrets on Cultivating the Mind)

Sources

• contentTracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  pp. 140–157

• contentBuddhism and Buddhists in Korea

  Sung-bae Park