Three Zen Sutras: The Heart, The Diamond, and The Platform Sutras

by Red Pine

“As for cultivating imperturbability, as long as someone doesn’t pay attention to the faults of others, their nature is imperturbable.

‘Clear in speech and thought like the sun in a cloudless sky

It isn’t the teaching that is instant or not but awareness that is quick or slow

If you get lost on the outside, you are attached to forms. If you get lost in the inside, you are attached to emptiness. To be free of form amid forms and free of emptiness amid emptiness, this is when you don’t get lost in the inside or on the outside.