'As a flame overthrown by the force of the wind
goes to an end
that cannot be classified [as essence, annihilation, etc],
so the sage freed from the name-body [ie, all mentation]
goes to an end
that cannot be classified' (Sn 5.6, Ṭhānissaro's trans).

https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/StNp/StNp5_6.html

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BDG Feature: The Paradox of Enlightenment: Compassion Born from the Depths of Emptiness

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A list of Mahāyāna ideas you [arguably] won't find in the early Buddhist texts: Buddha-nature (buddhadhātu, tathāgatagarbha, etc), ālāyavijñāna, Avalokiteśvara, Amitābha, Yaśodharā (see Bhaddakaccānā/Bhadrakātyāyani), Pure Lands, Kālacakra initiation, & the Trikāya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha-nature

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What is the self?

In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores One Mind, Buddha nature, and the awareness beneath thoughts, emotions, memories, and identity.

Using the image of light passing through a prism, this talk points toward the original awareness illuminating all experience.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/1EHUHF7h3hk

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What is the true nature of mind?

In this Zen teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores the One Mind Dharma, Buddha nature, and awareness beyond thought, self, and separation.

With references to Bodhidharma, Mazu, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, koan practice, meditation, light, waves, prisms, and music, this talk points toward the mind before thought.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/toz2MaX50m4

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Buddhism Basics 51: What is Buddha Nature?

h/t to Lodro Rinzler, author of "You Are Good, You Are Enough"

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Buddhism Basics 51: What is Buddha Nature?

h/t to Lodro Rinzler, author of "You Are Good, You Are Enough"

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✨ Nothing to add nor remove ✨

🪷 Pointing-out wisdom from the Uttaratantra Shastra 🪷

💛 Right now, can this moment be left just as it is? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Uttaratantra Shastra 🪷

✨ Therein is nothing to remove / And thereto not the slightest thing to add. / The perfect truth viewed perfectly / And perfectly beheld is liberation. — Uttaratantra Shastra ✨

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