Meditation – Let the awakening and watching be perpetually alive and bright!

Zen is the gateless gate. Just awaken the mind and be alert. Turn your attention from the outside and radiate within. Let the awakening and watching be perpetually alive and bright. Cut off the three poisonous minds. Permanently melt them away. Close the door of the six Thieves entrance, so they cannot sneak in.

Then, immeasurable, as the sand of the Ganges River, virtue and merit, various adornment, and truth will be attained. Pass over the old beings and attain the holy result. A second could be a far distance away. Since enlightenment is between now and the blink of an eye, why should we wait for gray hairs? The truth gate is profound and bottomless, how can we talk of it at all? We have only been talking of a simple way of watching the mind to let it be seen a little.

Self-Nature - Zen

If there is already original mind in every distinction, in every movement, and at all times, why can't we see it while this physical body is abnormal? Just with zen meditation?

Original Mind is always appearing in front of you; but just you, yourself do not see it. Have you ever dreamed? When you had a dream, was that your own body? You are talking and moving, is this different from your self or the same as your self? If it is already not different, then this body, as it is, is your original truth-body. This truth-body, itself, is your original mind.

This mind, from the beginning-less beginning, is nothing different from what it is now; it has never been born, it has never died; never perished, never increased, never decreased; never been dirty, never been immaculate; never been good, never been bad; has never come, never gone; was never right, never wrong; never a man, never a woman, never been a monk, never been a layman, never been old, never been young, neither a saint nor an ordinary being, neither God, nor a indigent-being; has had nothing to attain, has nothing to practice, has had no cause, no effect, no energy and no form.

It is like empty space; it cannot be held nor dropped.