Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind – Part 3
One who comprehends the mind that is the source of all dharmas understands everything. If you can stop generating false thoughts and illusions of personal possession and completely discard your preoccupation with the body, then you will certainly achieve birthlessness. How inconceivably wonderful!
As seemingly difficult as some passages above are to comprehend, the method elucidated is clear and the “goal” of training is set forth at the very beginning. Hung-jen was the fifth patriarch of Zen and the teacher Hui-neng studied with.
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