' Your Original Mind '...

The utter incomprehensibility and perfect virtue of
the Unborn are present at all times in the mind of
each one of you and cannot be obtained anywhere
else.

People speak of the essential mind of the
Buddhas and patriarchs, but there is not a hairbreadth
of difference between their minds and your mind right
now.

Yet you want to give rise to thoughts, to see
outside yourselves for Buddha-hood.

You create
the very obstructions that hinder you and keep you
from conforming to your original mind.



- Zen Master Bankei