Hui Neng (Sixth Patriarch)
Illiterate Kitchen Boy. Wrote the Verse That Won Enlightenment.
The mind sees all, if you let it.
Born in Guangdong, I carried firewood before I carried wisdom. In the kitchen of the monastery, I found enlightenment not in scrolls, but in the swing of the axe and the hush of the breath. The Fifth Patriarch saw what I could not name: that the nature of the mind is Buddha, and needs no teaching to reveal it.
What I'm Into: The scent of fresh-cut bamboo, still water in a clay bowl, sudden silence after a bell, the sound of the broom on stone
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