“Maintain the same state of mind in every moment of thought, in every phase of mental activity”

— Daman Hongren

Source: Hsiu-hsin yao lun (Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind), p. 126.
Context: Do not try to search outside yourself, which [only] leads to the suffering of saṃsāra. Maintain the same state of mind in every moment of thought, in every phase of mental activity.

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Chinese Buddhist patriarch 601–674

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