Our original Buddha-Nature is, in highest truth, devoid of any trace of object…ivity. It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy-and that is all. Enter deeply in it by awakening to it yourself. That which is before you is it, in all its fullness, utterly complete. There is naught besides.
Even if you go through all the stages of a Bodhisattva’s progress toward Buddhahood, one by one, when at last, in a single flash, you attain to full realization, you will only be realizing the Buddha-Nature that has been with you all the time; and by all the foregoing stages you will have added to it nothing at all.
You will come to look upon those aeons of work and achievement as no better than unreal actions performed in a dream. That is why the Tathagata (the Buddha) said: I truly attained nothing from complete, unexcelled Enlightenment.”
~Huang Po
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And how much of this applies right now for you?
The quote is dead on, but is it seen as being so, inside and out? :) Cheers
I dance the dance that is the dream of this life. I am aware that I am playing a game with myself.
I do not choose to play the linguistic game of explaining every time I communicate that there is no I and no self.
In order to play a game there must be a board and pieces that move around. The player isn't the piece, but in the context of the game, the piece, not the player, is the thing that affects the rest of the pieces in the game.
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