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"Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it."
- Huangbo Xiyun

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February 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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"To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form"

– Huangbo Xiyun

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March 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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"By the #dharma is meant the heart, for there is no Dharma apart from the heart.
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– Huangbo Xiyun

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September 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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"Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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May 15, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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"Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy – and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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September 16, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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"There exists just the One mind."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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August 28, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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"Suppose a warrior, forgetting that he was already wearing his pearl on his forehead, were to seek for it elsewhere, he could travel the whole world without finding it."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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February 20, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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"Learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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March 5, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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"When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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April 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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"Study leads to the retention of concepts and so the Way is entirely misunderstood."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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September 9, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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"Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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August 17, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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"Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people. There are some people just like mad dogs barking at everything that moves, even barking when the wind stirs among the grass and leaves."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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June 9, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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"All #buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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September 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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"People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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February 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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"Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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June 23, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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"Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the #Buddhas."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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November 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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"When the fish is caught we pay no more attention to the trap."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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March 17, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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"here is only the one reality, neither to be realized nor attained."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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June 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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"Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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January 18, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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"When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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September 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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January 23, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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"Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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May 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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"A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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September 7, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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"If you would spend all your time—walking, standing, sitting or lying down—learning to halt the concept-forming activities of your own mind, you could be sure of ultimately attaining the goal."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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December 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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"Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it."

– Huangbo Xiyun

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December 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM