The Platform Sutra is not a teaching of concepts. It's just the opposite. It is a teaching of no concepts. Every word Hui-Neng spoke is to help people free themselves from whatever concepts block their awareness of their own nature.
In the sutra, Hui-Neng teaches us to see our nature and become a Buddha.
Red Pine, a translator and commentator of the Platform Sutra, writes: If, after having read this sutra, readers think they have gained something, then they will have misunderstood it. We cannot gain what we already have. Or if readers think they have lost something, that they have been held up at mind-point and robbed of their most treasured conceptions, then they too will have misunderstood it. We cannot lose what we don't have. All we have is our buddha nature.
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