…any differentiation you keep your eyes closed, your ears plugged and try to turn off everything else. See now this man, the sixth patriarch Huineng, said that is not Buddhism at all. That is a way to become a stone buddha, and you might just as well be…

…things like that and so this principle is explained in the sutra of the sixth patriarch. You know the famous platform sutra of Huineng, where he says in gives a long instruction in how to answer people's questions about Zen. And he says: if they ask you…

…from our feelings and no thinker separate from our thoughts. There is simply a process going on. And so in the same way, Huineng the sixth patriarch prefers not to use the image of the mirror for the mind but he prefers the image of space. That's…

…the patriarchate made up the poem which explained that the mind is a mirror and we must wipe it to keep off the dust, Huineng countered this by saying: there isn't any mirror, and so whereon can the dust fall see? So this is saying that you will…

…of the sixth patriarch of the Zen School, who as I said was a contemporary of fatsang, and fatsang died in 712 a d and Huineng died in 713. In his discourse he gives a lesson on the art of teaching, the art of being a guru, and this lesson is…

…sitting in a state where they are blind and deaf to everything going on around them. The founder of Chinese Zen, known as Huineng, described people like that as no better than pieces of rock and lumps of wood. He said it's a very serious mistake indeed…

…poem and although he approved of it publicly he took the head monk aside and said: uh uh not good enough, write another. But Huineng heard about this poem and he had another written up beside it which said in effect that there isn't really a mirror, so…

…a long period until the trouble should die down and then he would emerge and teach. Now there's a very important point underlying what Huineng wrote. You see if we we all know that to be completely present in mind, to be fully in what we are doing,…

…permeable continuum space. In a Chinese text called the danjing or the platform sutra attributed to the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism, Huineng, he has the passage where he says that the mind is like the emptiness of space. Now he says: if you want…

…Buddhism in verse, and so on till they came to Eno, the sixth patriarch. You know perhaps more familiarly his Chinese name, Huineng. The problem, you know with what you read in books is that the spelling is terribly confusing. You see this guy, Huineng.…

…name, Huineng. The problem, you know with what you read in books is that the spelling is terribly confusing. You see this guy, Huineng. Most people say Huineng and they've also read a text called the sutra of w e and they say wailang. But this is…

…problem, you know with what you read in books is that the spelling is terribly confusing. You see this guy, Huineng. Most people say Huineng and they've also read a text called the sutra of w e and they say wailang. But this is simply the Cantonese way…

…wailang. But this is simply the Cantonese way of pronouncing the same characters and this is the Mandarin way. In Mandarin Huineng becomes wailang. In Cantonese almost say hui Wei, Huineng, Wailang, and in Japanese Eno. Totally confusing, but it's all the…

…of pronouncing the same characters and this is the Mandarin way. In Mandarin Huineng becomes wailang. In Cantonese almost say hui Wei, Huineng, Wailang, and in Japanese Eno. Totally confusing, but it's all the same man and he died in 715 AD. He's the real…

…Hindu Monk, kumarajiva. And in the following 200 years, 300 years, it slowly took form and took form until a very remarkable man by the name of Huineng H u I n e n g, who died in 713 a d was the man who put it on the map, who, as it were,…

…called the real founder of Chinese Zen. Now we're going to, in the course of this seminar we're going to look at the work of Huineng. But I want first, before we look at him to look at some of the earlier people, especially sung tsan. Sung tsan was a…

…look at him to look at some of the earlier people, especially sung tsan. Sung tsan was a couple of generations before Huineng, Spiritual generations, that is master pupils of him who wrote the most succinct summary of Zen that exists which is called the…

…stories with all their strangely seeming irrelevant remarks, is quite simple. It's all explained in the sutra of the sixth patriarch Huineng, when he says: if somebody asks you a question about matters sacred, always answer in terms of matters profane. If…

…teachings of the sixth patriarch of the Zen School, who as I said was a contemporary of fatsang, and fatsang died in 712 AD, and Huineng died in 712 AD and so on and so forth 713. In his discourse he gives a lesson on the art of teaching, the art…

…go withness with each other in the same way as a figure and a background. So in order to get this point across, Huineng explained that when a person asks you a question about something sacred, you give him an answer in terms of something secular. When…

…for the stupid people and routes for the intelligent people, and the latter are faster. This was perfectly clearly explained by Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen in china, in his sutra, where he says the difference between the gradual school and the…

…you is how you feel inside your head. So it's the same with this. And so, for this reason, the great sixth patriarch Huineng in china said that it was a great mistake for those who were practicing Buddhist Meditation to try to make their minds empty.…

…Imagery symbolized by a mirror, because a mirror has no color and yet reflects all colors. When this man I talked to you of Huineng said that you shouldn't just try to cultivate a blank mind, what he said was this: the void sunyata is like space. Now…

…after this after this all linking up together into a chain. In the famous Zen text called the platform sutra, attributed to Huineng, the sixth patriarch, there is a passage which says: if we allow our thoughts past, present and future to link up into…

…the sutra of the sixth patriarch, or the tanjing, the platform sutra. In a chapter that people have virtually neglected, Huineng explains the whole technique of Zen teaching by saying: if somebody asks you a question about metaphysical things you answer…

…and one of them said: the wind is moving the flag. And the other said the flag is moving the wind. And the sixth patriarch, Huineng, was asked about this and he said: you're both wrong. The mind is moving. And so what you might say here is the point…

…Buddhism in verse, and so on till they came to Eno, the sixth patriarch. You know perhaps more familiarly his Chinese name, Huineng. The problem, you know with what you read in books is that the spelling is terribly confusing. You see this guy, Huineng…

…name, Huineng. The problem, you know with what you read in books is that the spelling is terribly confusing. You see this guy, Huineng most people say Huineng and they've also read a text called the sutra of w e and they say wailang. But this is…

…problem, you know with what you read in books is that the spelling is terribly confusing. You see this guy, Huineng most people say Huineng and they've also read a text called the sutra of w e and they say wailang. But this is simply the Cantonese way…

…wailang. But this is simply the Cantonese way of pronouncing the same characters and this is the Mandarin way. In Mandarin Huineng becomes wailang. In Cantonese almost say hui Wei, Huineng, Wailang, and in Japanese Eno. Totally confusing but it's all the…

…way of pronouncing the same characters and this is the Mandarin way. In Mandarin Huineng becomes wailang. In Cantonese almost say hui Wei, Huineng, Wailang, and in Japanese Eno. Totally confusing but it's all the same man and he died in 715 a d and he's…

…Hindu Monk, kumarajiva, and in the following 200 years, 300 years, it slowly took form and took form until a very remarkable man by the name of Huineng, H u I n e n g, who died in 713 a d was the man who put it on the map, who, as it were,…

…real founder of Chinese Zen. Now we are going to in the course of this seminar, we are going to look at the work of Huineng, but I want first, before we look at him to look at some of the earlier people, especially sun tsan. Sun tsan was a couple…

…we look at him to look at some of the earlier people, especially sun tsan. Sun tsan was a couple of generations before Huineng Spiritual generations, that is, not the people, not the pupils of him who wrote the most succinct summary of Zen that exists,…

…roots for the stupid people and roots for the intelligent people and the latter are faster. This was perfectly clearly explained by Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen in china, in his sutra, where he says the difference between the gradual school and the…