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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
