"When the fish is caught we pay no more attention to the trap."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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"Learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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"To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form"

– Huangbo Xiyun

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"Suppose a warrior, forgetting that he was already wearing his pearl on his forehead, were to seek for it elsewhere, he could travel the whole world without finding it."

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"People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void."

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"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."

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"Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought."

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"If you would spend all your time—walking, standing, sitting or lying down—learning to halt the concept-forming activities of your own mind, you could be sure of ultimately attaining the goal."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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"Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it."

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"The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?... ...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'"

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