Dogen and Huike on The Sole Ancestor

Dogen and Huike on The Sole Ancestor
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If you completely comprehend the clear purity of the mind-source, then all vows are fulfilled, all practices are completed, all is accomplished. You are no longer subject to states of being. For those who find this body of reality [dharmakāya], the numberless sentient beings are just one good person: the one person who has been there in accord with This through a million billion aeons.
~Huike (Second Zen Ancestor in China) Zen Dawn, J.C. Cleary, p.39-40
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It is not that there is a person inside, for the Ocean of one’s being is not some abode of a worldly person nor is it someplace beloved by a saintly person; it is one’s Self alone within the Ocean of one’s being. It is simply our constantly and openly giving expression to the Dharma.
Shobogenzo, Kaiin Zammai, Hubert Nearman
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Also, you need to hear that the whole of the great earth is your own Dharma Body. That which seeks to know what we truly are is the resolute heart of someone who is truly alive. Even so, those who see what their True Self is are few. Only a Buddha alone knows this Self. Others who are off the Path, such as non-Buddhists, vainly take their unreal, false self to be their True Self. The Self that Buddhas speak of is synonymous with the whole of the great earth. Thus, whether we know or do not know our True Self, in either case, there is no ‘whole of the great earth’ that is other than our True Self.
Shobogenzo, Yui Butsu Yo Butsu, Hubert Nearman
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Peace,
Ted