If You Can Understand The Mind, Everything Else Is Included

If someone is determined to reach enlightenment, what is the most essential method he can practice? The most essential method, which includes all oter methods, is beholding the mind. But how can one method include all others? The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

~Bodhidharma's Breakthrough Sermon on Pine 1989, 77~

Realize the source of mind

When you suddenly 

Realize the source of mind,

You open a box of jewels.

Honorable on earth and in the heavens,

You are aloof even 

From the joy of meditation.

The essence containing all flavors 

Is the supreme delicacy,

Worth more than ten thousand 

Ounces of pure gold. 

 - Fenyang -

Things

The things of this world are passing

and to cling to them

is bound to be a source of pain.

~zen~

To Find Gpd

To find god is to come to one's own self.

~zen~

Divine Qualities

If the inner life is to be harmonious and enlightened

Divine qualities have to be developed and expressed in daily life.

~zen~