Monday 2 January 2012

From the Zen Letters- Teaching of Yuanwn

"If you can cut off outward clinging to objects and wardly forget your false ideas of self, things themselves are the true self, and the true self itself is things: things and true self are One Suchness, opening through to infinity.

If you are attached to perception, then this is a perception- it is not arriving at the truth. Those who arrive at the Truth transcend perception, but they manage to use perception without dwelling in perception. When you pass directly through perception and get free of it, it is all the fundamental Truth. "

Zen Letters- Teaching of Yuanwn