“This teaching of casting off body and mind articulated by both Hongzhi and Dogen points to the essence of silent illumination, which is simply focusing awareness on the totality of self to return to and enact the bright shining empty field that is our own fundamental nature.”

― Taigen Dan Leighton, Cultivating the Empty Field

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Morning Meditation
‘All dharmas are innately amazing beyond description.
Perfect vision has no gap.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue

https://buddhismnow.com/2023/02/03/morning-meditation-perfect-vision/

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