景德傳燈錄 5.6

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5.6

Chan Master Fahai of Shaozhou was a native of Qujiang. When he first met the Sixth Patriarch, he asked: "'The mind itself is Buddha'—I pray you bestow instruction and metaphor." The Patriarch said: "When the preceding thought does not arise, that is mind; when the succeeding thought is not extinguished, that is Buddha. To form all marks is mind; to be free of all marks is Buddha. If I were to explain it fully, even endless kalpas would not exhaust it. Listen to my verse:"

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景德傳燈錄 — Classical Chinese