What did your original face look like before your father and mother were born?
"When you hear me speak of emptiness, don't become attached to it, especially don't become attached to any idea of it. Merely "sitting" still with your mind vacant, you fall into notional emptiness.
The boundless emptiness of the sky embraces the 'ten thousand things' of every shape and form - the sun, moon and stars; mountains and rivers; bushes and trees; bad people and good; good teachings and bad; heavens and hells. All these are included in emptiness.
The emptiness of your original nature is just like this. It too embraces everything. To this aspect the word 'great' applies. All and everything is included in your own original nature."
-Hui Neng, his original face empty of features; his ode empty of mirrors; from Zen: Direct pointing to Reality by Anne Bancroft, 1979, Thames and Hudson; London
Listening to: Yoko Kanno 'Spiral Reborn'
The boundless emptiness of the sky embraces the 'ten thousand things' of every shape and form - the sun, moon and stars; mountains and rivers; bushes and trees; bad people and good; good teachings and bad; heavens and hells. All these are included in emptiness.
The emptiness of your original nature is just like this. It too embraces everything. To this aspect the word 'great' applies. All and everything is included in your own original nature."
-Hui Neng, his original face empty of features; his ode empty of mirrors; from Zen: Direct pointing to Reality by Anne Bancroft, 1979, Thames and Hudson; London
Listening to: Yoko Kanno 'Spiral Reborn'
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