NOTES OF DESCIPLES OF BODHIDHARMA

28th Buddhist Patriarch & 1st Zen Patriarch

CHAPTER 1.

LOTUS RAIN

jhkiu kio

31 October 1979 am in Buddha Hall

QUESTION: WHAT IS BUDDHA-MIND?

ANSWER: YOUR MIND IS IT. WHEN YOU SEE THE SELFSAME ESSENCE
OF IT, YOU CAN CALL IT SUCHNESS. WHEN YOU SEE THE
CHANGELESS NATURE OF IT, YOU CAN CALL IT DHARMAKAYA. IT
DOES NOT BELONG TO ANYTHING; THEREFORE, IT IS CALLED
EMANCIPATION. IT WORKS EASILY AND FREELY, NEVER BEING
DISTURBED BY OTHERS; THEREFORE, IT IS CALLED THE TRUE PATH. IT
WAS NOT BORN AND, THEREFORE, IT IS NOT GOING TO PERISH, SO IT
IS CALLED NIRVANA.

QUESTION: WHAT IS DATHAAGADAA?

ANSWER: ONE WHO KNOWS THAT HE COMES FROM NOWHERE AND
GOES NOWHERE.

QUESTION: WHAT IS BUDDHA?

ANSWER: ONE WHO REALIZES THE TRUTH, AND HOLDS NOTHING
THAT IS TO BE REALIZED.

QUESTION: WHAT IS DHARMA?

ANSWER: IT WAS NEVER PRODUCED, AND WILL NEVER BE REDUCED;
THEREFORE, IT IS CALLED DHARMA, THE NORM OF THE UNIVERSE.

QUESTION: WHAT IS SANGHA?

ANSWER: IT IS SO NAMED BECAUSE OF THE BEAUTY OF ITS
HARMONY .