Huineng · Theology
The core practice of the Southern School: <em>jianxing</em>, seeing one's own nature - the teaching that Buddha is not elsewhere or in the future but is your own mind, here, when the projecting and grasping fall away.
You learned that Huineng made jianxing (directly seeing one's own nature) the whole point of practice, that he located Buddha and the Pure Land within one's own mind rather than in another realm, that this nature is intrinsically pure and complete in everyone, and that ritual and merit-seeking are hollow if they repla…
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