Tag Archives: Unborn

The Melody of the Unborn

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Vajragoni

8.3 (73) Parinibbāna (Nibbāna Sutta)

Thus has it been made known. On one occasion the Blessed One was residing near Sāvatthī, at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika’s Park. On that auspicious occasion the Blessed One was instructing and arousing and inspiring the monks with a discourse centered on Nibbāna. The monks opened their Dharma-ear and responded wholeheartedly to the Dhamma being displayed before them. read more

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Real Mind is Dharmakaya

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Vajragoni

Our own Real Nature is the Nature of the Unborn.
Once this Nature is grasped there is no subtle shift or change
As this Mind never increases or decreases but is simply
Self-Realized as the Dharmakaya
Remaining stabilized and free in this Realization
Assures tranquility of mind and spirit. read more

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This is the destiny of most sentient minds…

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Tozen

Desire-Thought-Function. The creation of one enables the latter, ad-infinitum. From the first to the last and from the last back to the first. read more

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The untrapped Mind

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Tozen

The untrapped Mind is the Mind of Nirvana.

Where defiled minds dwell in countless positions of their own making, the untrapped Mind remains free in the shining reality of its own uncreatedness. read more

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Open your mouth

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Tozen

Open your mouth, utter a single syllable, type a single word and you merely are spreading the illusion of your own perception of what you believe, at any given moment, to be the equal or part of an absolute reality. read more

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The first thing ever expressed by an enlightened sage

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Tozen

The first thing ever expressed by an enlightened sage to any given student of the way is the wordless proof that “there is only Mind”.  This is the very same dharma professed by all bodhisattvas maha bodhisattvas and Buddhas.Whatever more sentient beings might see, either by the appearance of words, various meanings via composed doctrines and other forms of literal conveyance, it all falls back on that first wordless truth of the Absolute, that is immaculate, permanent, unborn, read more

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Faith and enlightenment in Zen

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Tozen

All born things are subject to entropy. Nothing created can ever escape the critical point of its own decay and final dissolution.  read more

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Know your true nature

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Tozen

As an inexhaustible producer of form and emptiness,

the great Mind Essence remains permanently  imageless. read more

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The Zen of your own-being

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Tozen

Om svabhava suddha sarva dharma svabhava suddho’ham. [1]

Character is nothing, own-being is everything. Thus, such is the path of enlightenment  that a being of good merit should choose not to foster character but unveil the clear light of their own-being to themselves. read more

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The Zen that is quicker than lightning.

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Tozen

Once upon a time a good mind of the way transported its body to a supposed place of a great Mind Master,  as to inquire into the mystery of the Buddhadharma. read more

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