Buddhanature

[image is from Tyson Williams' site]

This is the Daily Zen for January 17, 2007:

Whether you are going or staying
Sitting or lying down,
The whole world is your own self.
You must find out
Whether the mountains,
Rivers, grass, and forests
Exist in your own mind
Or exist outside it.
Analyze the ten thousand things,
And when you take
This to the limit,
You will come to the limitless;
When you search into it,
You come to the end of search,
Where thinking goes no
Further and distinctions vanish.
When you smash the citadel of doubt,
Then the Buddha is simply yourself.

~ Daikaku (1213-1279)

In an earlier post this morning, I mentioned that we are more expansive than we realize. It is our Buddhanature that provides this expansiveness. In this short quote above, Zen master Daikaku offers a simple series of steps for finding the Buddhanature within all of us.

But if we haven't been working to remove the blockages that keep us in a state of feeling limited, we will have a hard time finding that expansive place within us.

Tags: Daily Zen, Daikaku, Buddhanature