"If one definitively understands that all dharmas are fundamentally nonexistent and that there is nothing that can be attained, with no reliance and no abiding, no subject and no object, without activating false thoughtsâthis is to realize bodhi. And when one realizes enlightenment, this is only to realize the fundamental Buddha of the mind. To pass through eons of effort is nothing but useless cultivation. Just as when the warrior attained his pearl he merely attained the pearl that was originally on his forehead, and this had nothing to do with his ability to seek elsewhere. Therefore the Buddha has said, âI have truly not attained anything in the ultimate bodhi.â"
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Huangbo Xiyun (Simplified Chinese: é»æȘćžèż; Traditional Chinese: é»æȘćžé; pinyin: HuĂĄngbĂČ XÄ«yĂčn; Wade-Giles: 'Huang-po Hsi-yĂŒn') (died 850) was an influential Chinese master of Chan Buddhism. He was born in Fujian, China in Tang Dynasty. Later he became a monk in Huangbo Shan (lit. Huangbo Mountain), after which he was named.
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