Bring to rest the thoughts of the ceaselessly seeking mind, and you’ll not differ from the Patriarch-Buddha. Do you want to know the Buddha?
He is none other than you who stand before me listening to my discourse. Since you students lack faith in yourselves, you run around seeking something outside.
Even if through seeking you find something, that something will be nothing more than elaborate descriptions in written words; in the end you will fail to gain the mind of the Living Patriarch.
Make no mistake, worthy Ch’an practitioners! If you don’t meet the Buddha here and now, you’ll go on transmigrating through the three realms for myriads of kalpas and thousands of lives, and held in the clutch of agreeable circumstance, be born in the womb of as ass or cow.
– Lin-chi Hui-chao
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