Quote Archives: Hui Neng

Worldly activities and effortless unconcern ~ Hui Neng

You do not have to abandon worldly activities in order to attain effortless unconcern. You should know that worldly activities and effortless unconcern are not two different things, but if you keep thinking about rejection and grasping, you make them two. Hui Neng

At liberty to come or to go ~ Hui Neng

When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to ‘come’ or to ‘go’, we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of ‘thoughtlessness’. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous […]

Unencumbered by ideas ~ Hui Neng

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one reality. Hui Neng