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  A monk asked the Chinese Ch'an master Chien Paling:
-What is the difference between the meaning of the Sutras and that of the Patriarch?
The master replied:
-When it is cold, hen would go up on a tree and duck down to water. more...

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THE SHINING MIND
The brightly shining mind is never absent but is colored by the thoughts and
emotions that people put upon it. if you were to see the luminous freedom of this
mind, you would cultivate it before any other, keeping it free from all attachments.


 



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