Huineng · Theology
The wisdom (<em>prajna</em>) at the heart of Huineng’s teaching, drawn from the Diamond Sutra: emptiness, the mind that rests on nothing, and the astonishing claim that the passions are themselves enlightenment and the ordinary mind is itself Buddha.
You learned that Huineng grounded his teaching in prajna (the perfection of wisdom) from the Diamond Sutra - the line about giving rise to a mind that abides nowhere - and that this wisdom of emptiness let him teach that ordinary beings are already Buddha and that the passions are themselves bodhi. Explain how emptine…
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