The Bright Mirror Verse

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The body is the bodhi tree, the mind is like a bright mirror stand. At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let dust alight.

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Yuquan Shenxiu

Lineage: Early Chan

By Yuquan Shenxiu

• On Gradual Cultivationsermon
• Watch the Mindsaying

From Platform Sūtra

• 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
• There Is No Mirror Stand

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Platform Sutra, verse competition episode; Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 4, Shenxiu chapter

  Platform Sūtra: The Bright Mirror Verse