Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.
HuinengA finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.
HuinengBy amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
HuinengGood friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.
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