“From the start of your training under a wise master, have no recourse to incense offerings, prostrations, recitation of buddha names, repentances, or sutra reading. Just sit in meditation and attain the dropping off of mind and body.”
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From “Dharma Record of Mind Transmission”, by Huang-po Hsi-yün 黄檗希运 (d. 850)
“When you are attached to outer form, to meritorious practices and performances, this is a deluded understanding that is out of accord with the Way.”