Quote Originally Posted by Scott R. Brown View Post
Here is a quote by Huang Po, it is found in verse #13 of the text, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po On The Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld:

If you students of the WAY wish to become Buddhas, you need study no doctrines [dharmas] whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.

The eighty-four thousand methods for countering the eighty-four thousand forms of delusion are merely figures of speech for drawing people towards the Gate. In fact, none of them have real existence. Relinquishment of everything is Dharma, and he who understands this is a Buddha, but relinquishment of ALL delusions leaves no Dharma on which to lay hold!

For those unfamiliar with Huang Po, Zen Master Hsi Yun (Huang Po) taught in the 800's A.D. and died approximately 850 A. D. He was the Dharma Master of I Husan, founder of the Lin Chi, (Rinzai) sect.


From my personal experience,

The big picture is correct.

As for,
How to get beyond the mind and see one's buddha nature, that needs a master.
After that how to practice to desolve all the habit, that also needs a method of cultivation.


Thus, it is called Cultivation after Enligtenment. That is the path of Zen.