Huineng · Theology

The Buddha Within

Huineng’s radical internalizing of ritual: the ‘formless’ precepts, the formless repentance, and taking refuge not in external Buddhas but in the three treasures of one’s own nature - because, he insists, your own nature is already Buddha.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Huineng gave ‘formless’ precepts and a ‘formless’ repentance, redirected the three refuges from external objects to the three treasures within one’s own nature, and taught that ‘your own nature is Buddha’ - deluded, and the Buddha is an ordinary being; awakene…

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