禅Mazu Daoyi

proverb

This Very Mind Is Buddha

Tang

Traditionally attributed

Text

This very mind is Buddha. When someone asks for the teaching outside this mind, he is like a man riding an ox looking for an ox.

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Attribution

Lineage: Nanyue line

By Mazu Daoyi

Sources

  • contentThe Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism

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

    pp. 50–82

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