Pi Chien said, "The Ch'an [Zen] worthies at the capital city all said that if we want to attain understanding of the Way, it is necessary to sit in meditation and cultivate concentration; no one has ever attained liberation but for meditation concentration. How about the doctrine you expound?"
The Master said, "The Way is realized by the mind--how could it be in sitting? A sutra says, 'If you say the Buddha is sitting or reclining, you are traveling a false path. Why? Because he neither comes from anything nor goes anywhere.' Freedom from birth and death is the pure meditation of the Buddha; the emptiness of all things is the pure seat of the Buddha. Ultimately there is no realization, much less sitting."
---The Sutra of Hui-neng---
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