Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Buddhism

I surfed the Internet around and found this website:

http://www.buddhism.org/

There are some dharma talkings of Venerable Master Hye-Am, and I looked through No Buddha-Nature Outside of the Mind of Bodhidharma's talk on lineage. It is about the talking of Bodhidharma and his students. A student asked "If we do not depend upon any written word, with what and how do we conceive the mind?" "When you are asking me, that is your mind. When I am responding to you, that is my mind; from the ancient, beginningless time, each and every movement in all different times and places is your original mind and your original Buddha." Bodhidharma said. It means that Self, as it is , is its own mind; the mind in itself is this Buddha. That is the reason it has been said, the mind in itself is Buddha in himself.

Buddhas have spoken the mind only:

Only the mind is Buddha,

Only Buddha is the mind;

Buddha exists not outside of the mind,

Mind exists not outside of Buddha.

It means that if you see Buddha is just your mind, then do not seek Buddha outside of the mind. Buddha cannot be liberated by Buddha, and Buddha cannot be seen if sought with the kind.

1 comment:

Savant English School said...

Some deep philosophy here. Are you sure you understand it, or are you just repeating what you read??? This seems to be one kind of Buddhism called Zen or Chan in Chinese