Huang Po Quote Generator

1.  "When thoughts of the past cannot be taken hold of, that is relinquishment of the past. When thoughts of the present cannot be taken hold of, that is relinquishment of the present. When thoughts of the future cannot be taken hold of, that is relinquishment of the future. This is called utter relinquishment of Triple Time." - Huang Po

2.  "The belief that the Dharmakaya can be obtained belongs to the doctrines of those sects which do not understand the truth." - Huang Po

3.  "Develop a mind which rests on no thing whatever." - Huang Po

4.  "People are often hindered by environmental phenomena from perceiving Mind, and by individual events from perceiving underlying principles; so they often try to escape from environmental phenomena in order to still their minds, or to obscure events in order to retain their grasp of principles. They do not realize that this is merely to obscure phenomena with Mind, events with principles. Just let your minds become void and environmental phenomena will void themselves; let principles cease to stir and events will cease stirring of themselves." - Huang Po

5.  "Any concept of sentient beings in need of deliverance CREATES such beings as objects of your thoughts. All intellectual processes and movements of thought result from your concepts." - Huang Po

6.  "I am like a man drinking water who knows in himself how cool it is." - Huang Po

7.  "If you students of the Way do not awake to this Mind substance, you will overlay Mind with conceptual thought, you will seek the Buddha outside yourselves, and you will remain attached to forms, pious practices and so on, all of which are harmful and not at all the way to supreme knowledge." - Huang Po

8. "All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but One Mind, beside which nothing exists." - Huang Po

9.  "If you students of the Way do not awake to this Mind substance, you will overlay Mind with conceptual thought, you will seek the Buddha outside yourselves, and you will remain attached to forms, pious practices and so on, all of which are harmful and not at all the way to supreme knowledge." - Huang Po

10.  "What sort of thing do you suppose the Way to be that you should wish to FOLLOW it?" - Huang Po