#pai-chang

A day without work is a day without eating.

To cling to oneself as Buddha, oneself as Zen or the way, making that an understanding, is called clinging to the inward view... Attainment by causes and conditions, practice and realization, is called the outward view... Master Pao-chih said, “The inward view and the outward view are both mistaken.”

Truth’s naked radiance, cut off from the senses and the world, shines by itself–no words for it...

All verbal teachings are just to cure diseases. Because diseases are not the same, the remedies are also different. (...) Because disease is unreal, there is only unreal medicine to cure it.

The Sutra says, "To behold the Buddha nature you must wait for the right moment and the right conditions. When the time comes, you are awakened as if from a dream. You realize that what you have found is your own and doesn't come from anywhere outside." An ancient patriarch said, "After Enlightenment you are still the same as you were before. There is no mind and there is no truth." You are simply free from unreality and delusion. The ordinary person's mind is the same as the sage's, because Original Mind is perfect and complete in itself. When you have arrived at this recognition, please hold on to it.

A day without work is a day without eating. ~ Pai-chang