All is One – But where does the One go? This God, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible.
Everything is one. Everything is energy. All is the one spirit. Everything is Buddha, everything is God! But where does one go back to? If you ask me, I would say; you have two eyebrows (Abbot Reding)
Zen Master Huang Po
Zen Master Huang Po: “All the Buddhas and the living beings are none other than the one Spirit (God) next to which nothing else exists. This God, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. He is neither green nor yellow, has neither form nor appearance. He is neither long nor short, neither great nor small, for he transcends all boundaries, measures, names, signs and comparisons. ”
Bodhidharma - One Meditation
Twenty eight Patriarchs from India before me have only transmitted mind. My coming to this country is just to point out Sudden Enlightenment which is the law of Mind-is-Buddha. I am not interested in practicing the precepts, excruciating training, ascetic practices, magical ways of entering fire or water, standing on the tip of the sword, eating only one meal a day, or sitting for long periods of time without lying down.
Those who practice such are all outsiders dependent upon the Law-of-Doing. Your mind is those Buddhas' mind, as long as you see the divine-awakening-nature in each and every action and movement.
All the Buddhas, former and later, have taught the Law-of-transmitting-the-mind and no other Law. By seeing this mind, without knowing a letter, Enlightenment can be attained.
Although working hard even until the physical body becomes ashes, without knowing the divine self-awakening-nature, Enlightenment can not be attained.
God is called either Truth-Body or the Awakened-mind. This mind is formless, cause-less-and-effect-less, muscle-and-boneless. It is just like empty space; you cannot grab it.
And above all, it is different from the material-world and different from outsiders' beliefs. This mind is not separate from the four elements of the physical body. Without this mind one who moves does not exist. This body does not have knowing, just like weeds and trees; or like roof-tile and this corpse itself does not have feeling and sensation; how can it move?