' How To Be A Buddha '...

Let there be a silent understanding and no more.

Away with all thinking and explaining.

Then we may say that the Way of Words has been cut off and movements of the mind eliminated.

This Mind is the pure Buddha-Source inherent in all men.

All wriggling beings possessed of sentient life and all the Buddhas and Boddhisattvas are of this one substance and do not differ.

Differences arise from wrong-thinking only and lead to the creation of all kinds of karma.

All the visible universe is the Buddha; so are all sounds; hold fast to one principle and all the others are Identical.

On seeing one thing, you see ALL.

On perceiving any individual's mind, you are perceiving ALL Mind.

Obtain a glimpse of one way and ALL ways are embraced in your vision, for there is nowhere at all which is devoid of the Way.

When your glance falls upon a grain of dust, what you see is identical with all the vast world systems with their great rivers and mighty hills.

To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.

Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha."



-Huang Po