I wanted to up this thread, so here are some quotes :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangbo_Xiyun
To awaken suddenly to the fact that your own Mind is the Buddha, that there is nothing to be attained or a single action to be performed - this is the Supreme Way.[9]
'Studying the Way’ is just a figure of speech [...] In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. You must not allow this name [the Way] to lead you into forming a mental concept of a road.[13]
If you students of the Way wish to become Buddhas, you need study no doctrines whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.[15]
Please note that I did not say there is no Zen. I merely pointed out that there are no teachers![18]
http://www.mlquotes.com/authors/huangbo ... ang_po%29/
When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
Forget all your concepts. All that you have learned about truth is false.
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.
Do not seek truth. Instead, look at the false beliefs that you already have. It's when we stop seeking something that we realize we are on the good path.
Here it is--right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.
http://www.geocities.com/lesliebarclay/HuangPo1.html
The Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts and so the Way is entirely misunderstood.
Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha.
We cannot become what we have always been; we can only become intuitively aware of our original state, previously hidden from us by the clouds of maya.
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding; and by this understanding will you awake to the truth of Zen.
Have no longing to become a future Buddha; your sole concern should be, as thought succeeds thought, to avoid clinging to any of them.
Develop a mind which rests on no thing whatsoever.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Huangbo_Xiyun
The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.