禅Trần Nhân Tông

proverb

Knowing the Mind, Seeing the Nature

Trần Dynasty

Traditionally attributed

Text

Buddha is not somewhere else. Go back into your own mind and see clearly — there the Buddha has been waiting all along. Search outside, and you will run to exhaustion and not arrive.

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Attribution

Lineage: Trúc Lâm

By Trần Nhân Tông

Sources

  • contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

    Cuong Tu Nguyen

    pp. 85–123

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