Asked "What is buddha
" (如何[是]佛) Ma-tsu replied "This very mind, this is Buddha." (即心即佛 or 即心是佛. Sokushin sokubutsu.)
Mumonkan case 30 (The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch 53)
No Mind No Buddha
Asked "What is buddha
" (如何[是]佛) Ma-tsu replied "Neither mind nor Buddha." (非心非佛. Hishin, hibutsu.)
Mumonkan case 33 (The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch 53)
This Very Mind is Buddha
自心是佛 Jishin zebutsu. "Your own mind—this is Buddha." Ma-tsu
(The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch 55)
No Mind No Buddha Not a Thing
不是心不是佛不是物 "This is not mind, this is not Buddha, this is not a thing." (Fuzeshin, fuzebutsu, fuzemotsu.) Nan-chüan (The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch 55)
No Clinging
不著不求 "No clinging, no seeking." (Fujaku, fugu.) Pai-chang (Hyakujõ)
(The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch 62)
All Dharmas are Mind-Created
故叁界唯心 "Therefore the Three Realms are only mind" (Yue ni sangai yuishin) Ma-tsu Tao-i (The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch 54)
法界一相 Ultimate reality has a unified form. (Fa-chieh i-hsiang./Hokkai issõ.) Buddha
(Early Ch”an in China and Tibet 107)
Great Tao
不二大道 "The non-dual Great Tao." (Funi Daidõ) Chao-chou Ts”ung-shên (趙州 Jõshû Jûshin) (The Development of Chinese Zen After the Sixth Patriarch 61)
No Delusive Thoughts
幕妄想 "Away with your delusive thoughts!" "Don”t be deluded!" (Maku mõzõ!)
Ch”an master Wu-ye (Mugõ, 760-821) (Zen Word, Zen Calligraphy 65)
Whatever the master was asked, he replied "Maku mõzõ!"
(I”m not sure about the first character 幕, it may be incorrect.)
Who is This
不識 [I] know not. (Fushiki.) Bodhidharma
No Merit At All
廓然無聖 Vast emptiness, nothing holy! (Kakunen mushõ.) Bodhidharma
Dropped
身心脫落 "Body and mind dropped off." (Shen-hsin t”o-lo./Shinjin datsuraku.) Dõgen
Dõgen”s words describing his enlightenment (This is not a saying)
(Zen Buddhism: A History vol. 2, 107 n.24)
身心脫落 "Body and mind dropped away." (Zen Master Dogen 32)
身心脫落 (Casting off [both] body and mind.)
Hui-neng”s Enlightenment and Diamond Sutra
Fifth Patriarch Hung-jen (弘忍 Gunin or Kõnin, 601-674) signed Hui-neng to go to his chamber at the third watch in the evening.
"When the two were face to face in the stillness of the night, the Patriarch expounded the Diamond Sutra to his disciple. When he came to the sentence: "Keep your mind alive and free without abiding in anything or anywhere," Hui-neng was suddenly and thoroughly enlightened" (The Golden Age of Zen 62)
應無所住而生其心 "Keep your mind alive and free without abiding in anything or anywhere."
Diamond Sûtra (Vajracchedikâ [Prajña Paramita] Sûtra) (The Golden Age of Zen 300 n.6)
"To awaken the mind without fixing it anywhere" (Essays in Zen Buddhism – Second Series 32)
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Note on Sources
1. Zenrin Kushû 禪林句集 "Ch”an lin lei chü in twenty fasciculi compiled in the year 1307. The title means ”Zen materials (literally, woods) classified and collected”. The book is now very rare." (Essays in Zen Buddhism – Second Series 253 n.1)
Also see Watts, The Way of Zen 117 n.4; Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History vol. 2, 47 n.113
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