Quotes

Question 1

Faith in Mind 
(The Supreme Way is not difficult
If only you do not pick and choose.
Neither love nor hate,
And you will clearly understand.)

Answer 1

信心銘

至道無難 唯嫌揀擇 但莫憎愛 洞然明白

Question 2

The Diamond Sutra

“So I say to you –
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:

Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.

So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”

Answer 2

《金剛經》偈語 「一切有為法 ，如夢幻泡影，如露亦如電，應作如是觀」

Question 3

No ego, personality, and life in being

Answer 3

無人相，我相，眾生相，壽者相

Question 4

To know all the Buddhas
of the past, present, and future,
perceive that Dharmadhatu nature
is all created by the mind.

Answer 4

若人欲了知
三世一切佛
應觀法界性
一切為心造

Question 5

“Wo-lun has a skill,
Cutting off a hundred thoughts.
When mind is not aroused in face of objects,
Bodhi grows day by day.”

“Hui-neng has no skill,
Does not cut off a hundred of thoughts.
In face of objects, mind is aroused again and again;
How can bodhi grow?”

Answer 5

臥輪有伎倆
能斷百思想
對境心不起
菩提日日長

惠能沒伎倆
不斷百思想
對境心數起
菩提作麼長

Question 6

The body is the bodhi tree,
The mind is like a clear mirror.
At all times we must strive to polish it,
And must not let the dust collect.

Bodhi originally has no tree,
The mirror(-like mind) has no stand.
Buddha-nature (emptiness/oneness) is always clean and pure;
Where is there room for dust (to alight)?

Answer 6

身是菩提樹
心如明鏡台
時時勤拂拭
勿使惹塵埃

菩提本無樹
明鏡亦非臺
本來無一物
何處惹塵埃?

Question 7

Ling-chi:

“Your spleen and stomach, your liver and gall don’t know how to preach the Dharma or listen to the Dharma.”

Answer 7

脾胃肝膽不解說法聽法

Question 8

“Not born, not destroyed, not stain, not pure, without loss, without gain.”

Answer 8

不生不滅 不垢不淨 不增不減

Question 9

The ten thousand dharmas return to the one; where does the one return to?

Answer 9

萬法歸一，一歸何處