[MD] Zen

[Heather Perella]

SA quoted previously:
> >"ON THE HIGH SEAT OF "THE TREASURE OF THE LAW" The
> >Platform Sutra of the 6 th Patriarch, Hui Neng"
> >
> >Bhikkhu Fa Hai, a native of Chu Kiang of Shao Chow,
> in
> >his first interview with the Patriarch asked the
> >meaning of the well-known saying, 'What mind is,
> >Buddha is.' The Patriarch replied, "To let not a
> >passing thought rise up is 'mind'. To let not the
> >coming thought be annihilated is Buddha. To
> manifest
> >all kinds of phenomena is 'mind'... Prajna is 'What
> >mind is', Samadhi is 'What Buddha is'. In
> practicing
> >Prajna and Samadhi, let each keep pace with the
> >other... This teaching can be understood Only
> through
> >the habit of practice.


Marsha: 
> Is this from a book you'd recommend?


SA:
These are websites I've been referring to as follows:


http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/platform-sutra.html

http://zen.thetao.info/read/platform.htm


(Both are sites of a translation by A. F. Price and
Wong Mou-Lam) 



SA



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