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"Our very nature is Buddha, and apart from this nature there is no other Buddha."
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Platform SutraIt is for a sole object, a sole aim, verily a lofty object and a lofty — Platform Sutra
"It is for a sole object, a sole aim, verily a lofty object and a lofty aim that the Buddha appears in this world. Now that sole object, that sole aim, that lofty object, that lofty aim referred to is the "sight" of Buddha-Knowledge."
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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a Chan Buddhist scripture that was composed in China during the 8th to 13th century. The "platform" (施法壇) refers to the podium on which a Buddhist teacher speaks.
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"Don`t despise a beginner," said I, "if you are a seeker of supreme enlightenment. You should know that the lowest class may have the sharpest wit, while the highest may be in want of intelligence. If you slight others, you commit a very great sin."
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"身是菩提樹 心如明鏡臺 時時勤拂拭 勿使惹塵埃"
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"To know our mind is to obtain liberation."
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"What the ignorant merely talk about, wise men put into actual practice with their mind."
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"For him who does not know his own mind there is no use learning Buddhism. On the other hand, if he knows his own mind and sees intuitively his own nature, he is a Hero, a Teacher of gods and men, Buddha."
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