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“As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space
an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble
a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning
view all created things like this.”
― Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra

“When we're deluded, there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.”
― Red Pine, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“In a world where nothing exists by itself, where every division of one thing from another is a misperception - or misconception - of the way things really are, there are no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind.

We cannot, for example, draw a line around the eyes that is not necessarily arbitrary. There is no point at which the eyes begin or end, either in time or in space or conceptually. The eye bone is connected to the face bone, and the face bone is connected to the head bone, and the head bone is connected to the neck bone, and so it goes down to the toe bone, the floor bone, the earth bone, the worm bone, the dreaming butterfly bone. Thus, what we call our eyes are so many bubbles in a sea of foam. This is not only true of our eyes but of our other powers of sensation as well, including the mind.”
― Red Pine, The Heart Sutra

“Know your mind and see your nature.”
― Red Pine, The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng

“There is no seer or anything seen / no speaker or anything spoken / the appearance of buddhas and also their teachings / are merely what we imagine 44. Those who view such things as real / they don’t see the Buddha / nor do those who imagine nothing / only those who transform their existence.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“The Buddha asks us to see things as they really are. He does not ask us to cling to optimistic views of eternity or pessimistic views of annihilation but simply to examine our experience.”
― Red Pine, The Heart Sutra

“I have always taught that things arise due to the conjunction of causes and conditions not that they arise without a cause.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“When you realize that whether something exists or not is nothing but the perception of your own mind, its external existence is seen as nonexistent and non-arising. Mahamati, there is no contradiction in my earlier and later statements.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“Mahamati, to see things as they really are means to transcend 414 what are nothing but perceptions of your own mind.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“Reading a few books can be helpful in pointing the direction - but again, these are all just fingers, fingers pointing to the moon.”
― Red Pine

“There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for a single thought, some for years, and some for lifetimes. But there isn’t one piece that isn’t our own creation.”
― Red Pine, Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

“Moreover, Mahamati, in future ages those who are wise might ask those who are not what I mean by ‘avoiding views characterized by sameness, difference, both, or neither.’421 And they might answer, ‘Whether form422 and so on are permanent or not or whether they are different or not is not a proper question.’423 Likewise, if they are asked to compare and contrast the characteristics of nirvana and samskara,424 characteristics and what is characterized, qualities and what is qualified, matter and what is made of matter,425 seeing and what is seen, earth and dust, practice and practitioner, they might answer, ‘The Buddha has declared these to be unanswerable.’ “But silence is something such foolish people would not understand. It is because those present lack sufficient wisdom that the tathagatas, the arhats, the fully enlightened ones say these are unanswerable to help them overcome fear. This is why they don’t answer. Also, it is to put an end to the mistaken views of other paths that they don’t respond.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“We might use or read or hear the same word twice, but we can't step into precisely the same thought a second time...Language is at the surface of the much deeper flow of our riverine minds.”
― Red Pine

“The Buddha told Mahamati, “There are three different levels of srota-apannas and attainments of srota-apannas.436 And what are the three? They are basic, intermediate, and advanced. Those at the basic level are reborn seven more times at the most. Those at the intermediate level are reborn three to five more times before they attain nirvana. And those at the advanced level attain nirvana in this life. “For each of these three, there are three bondages: coarse, intermediate, and subtle. And what are the three bondages? They are belief in a body, doubt, and attachment to codes.437 In terms of differences among these three bondages, whoever reaches the subtlest of the advanced level becomes an arhat.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“The Buddha then repeated the meaning of this in verse: 1. “Distinguish units of letters / units of words and phrases / people who foolishly cling to these / are like elephants in a quagmire.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“To awaken to this teaching is to have ‘no-idea,’ ‘no-memory,’ and ‘no-attachment.’ Not giving rise to delusions, this is the nature of suchness.33 View all dharmas with wisdom. Neither grasp them nor reject them. This is the way to see your nature and become a buddha.”
― Red Pine, Three Zen Sutras: The Heart, The Diamond, and The Platform Sutras

“the use of prajna in the title tells us this is a text that goes beyond the analysis of reality into discrete, knowable entities, such as those used by the Sarvastivadins. Thus, Zen masters ask their students to show them their original face, their face before they were born.”
― Red Pine, The Heart Sutra

“On the night of his Enlightenment, Shakyamuni asked himself what is the source of suffering and answered that it is old age and death. He then asked what is the origin of old age and death and answered that it is birth (jati), and the origin of birth is existence (bhava), and the origin of existence is attachment (upadana), and the origin of attachment is thirst (trishna), and the origin of thirst is sensation (vedana), and the origin of sensation is contact (sparsha), and the origin of contact is the abodes (ayatana), and the origin of the abodes is name and form (nama-rupa), and the origin of name and form is consciousness (vijnana), and the origin of consciousness is memory (sanskara), and the origin of memory is ignorance.”
― Red Pine, The Heart Sutra

“Poem by Stonehouse

"I was a Zen monk who didn't know Zen
so I chose the woods for the years I had left
a robe made of patches over my body
a belt of bamboo around my waist
mountains and streams explain Bodhidharma's meaning
flower smiles and birdsongs reveal the hidden key
sometimes I sit on a flat-topped rock
after midnight cloudless nights when the moon fills the sky"

Translated by Red Pine”
― Red Pine

“Whatever is form is impermanent. And whatever is impermanent is suffering. And whatever is suffering is devoid of a self, devoid of a self and anything that might belong to a self. One who views things like this sees things as they really are. So, too, are sensation, perception, memory and consciousness impermanent. And being impermanent, they are suffering. And being suffering, they are devoid of a self and anything that might belong to a self. One who views things like this sees them as they really are. Those noble disciples who view things like this are repulsed by form and repulsed by sensation, perception, memory, and consciousness. And because they are repulsed by them, they do not delight in them. And because they do not delight in them, they are free of them.”
― Red Pine, The Heart Sutra

“The Buddha then repeated the meaning of this in verse: 1. “Non-arising means nonexistence / existence includes samsara / who sees these as illusions / doesn’t give rise to projections of form.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“As a lamp, a cataract, a shooting star,
an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble,
a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning:
view all created things like this.”
― Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra

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― Red Pine, Battle Born: Jump and Die

“Meditation and wisdom are of one essence and not two. Meditation is the body of wisdom, and wisdom is the function of meditation. Wherever you find wisdom, you find meditation. And wherever you find meditation, you find wisdom. Good friends, what this means is that meditation and wisdom are the same.”
― Red Pine, The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng

“Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. I accept it with an open heart and without complaint of injustice. The sutras say: “When you meet with adversity don’t be upset, because it makes sense.” With such an understanding you’re in harmony with reason. And by suffering injustice you enter the Path.”
― Red Pine, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“What is real i the absence of the fiction of self-existence.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“Despite their value to human beings, jewels possess the three characteristics of all other created dharmas: origination, limited duration, and dissolution, while the teaching of this sutra transcends such limitations and is the source of”
― Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom

“1. “Meditation practiced by beginners / meditation on the meaning of characteristics / meditation based on suchness / or the pure meditation of the tathagatas 2. On such shapes as the sun or moon / or a lotus in the depths of hell363 / or space after the fire364 / thus do practitioners contemplate 3. A myriad of objects such as these / fill the meditations of other schools / and those trapped in the realms / of shravakas or pratyeka-buddhas 4. Those who abandon these / are thereby free of projections / buddhas come from every land / with hands beyond conception / and touch their heads as one / and lead them into suchness.“365”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

“Poem by Cold Mountain

"Looking for a refuge
Cold Mountain will keep you safe
a faint wind stirs dark pines
come closer the sound gets better
below them sits a gray-haired man
chanting Taoist texts
ten years unable to return
he forgot the way he came"

Translated by Red Pine”
― Red Pine

“If not for illusions, there would be nothing to compare things to.”
― Red Pine, The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary