Huangbo Xiyun Quotes

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

Look with all your eyes, look.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Life is but thought.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.