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Unity

Bodhi has no tree,
The bright mirror is not a stand.
Originally, there is nothing,
Where does dust arise?
Suchness is the mother,
Thoughts and conditions arise naturally.
Emptiness is one thing,
Dusted everywhere.

The Zen saying: "Nothing is other than the mind, and nothing is other than the object."

The mind can create things, and things can hold the mind. Suchness is the original mind; when the mind moves, qi arises, and the interaction of the two energies creates illusions that lose the original mind. Things are the movement of the mind; mind and matter are not two, but one, revealing the Zen way.

Those who cling to objects are turned by objects;
Those who cling to the mind are bound by the mind.
When both mind and object are liberated, freedom appears before you.

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TheSongOfTheBees

· 1h ago

Nothing is not the mind; nothing is not the object. Nothing is not the mind: There is no "thing" that is not a manifestation or function of the "mind." Here, "mind" does not refer to the physical organ but to the fundamental or aware subject—the "original mind" or "true mind"—equivalent to the Buddhist concept of "appearance of the mind only" or "all phenomena are consciousness," or the Lu-Wang school of mind philosophy's "nothing outside the mind." Nothing is not the object: No activity of the "mind" can exist without "objects." The "objects" here do not necessarily refer to material entities but are closer to "events" or "phenomena," meaning the mind always manifests within concrete phenomena and cannot be isolated from them. Together, the mind and the objects are not dualistic opposites but are interdependent and two sides of the same coin. This transcends dualism—neither pure materialism (which denies the origin of the mind) nor pure subjective idealism (which denies the relative reality of objects)—but holds that mind and matter are originally one, merely described from different perspectives of the same reality.

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TheSongOfTheBees

· 1h ago

Share the single "One Chant of Buddha, One Heart" by the Prajna Mantra Group

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