Zen for Absolute Beginners 440: Encountering the Buddhas of the Present
662. Eternity and non-eternity, the made and not-made, this world and that world - all these and other [ideas] belong to materialism.
“Thought creates the Buddha, thought itself sees him. Thought is the
Buddha, thought the Tathagata. Thought is my body, thought sees the
Buddha. Thought cannot itself know thought, thought cannot itself see thought. Thought with [false] apperceptions is stupidity; thought without [false] apperceptions is Nirvana. These dharmas lack anything enjoyable? They are all produced by thinking. Since thinking is empty, then whatever is thought is thus ultimately non-existent. Bhadrapala, such is the vision of the bodhisattvas established in the samadhi.”
-p43 The Samadhi of Direct Encounter with the Buddhas of the Present
[Pratyutpanna-Buddha-Samukhavasthita-Samadhi-Sutra]
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