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URL:     http://www.itteki-ji.org/origmind.html

Title:     Original Mind

Description:     By Shodo Harada Roshi. "In Buddhism, its often said that humans' Original Mind, that Mind we have at birth, is like a clear mirror, pure and uncluttered, with nothing in it whatsoever. Without shape, form or color. If something comes before it, the mirror only reflects it, but the mirror itself gives birth to nothing. If what has been reflected leaves, its image disappears, but the mirror itself loses nothing. Within the mirror there is no birth, no death. No matter how dirty a thing is which is reflected, the mirror doesn't get dirty, nor does it become beautiful because something beautiful is reflected in it. The mirror doesn't get dirty, clean or beautiful. Just because something is reflected doesn't mean anything increases in it either, nor does anything ever decrease. A mirror is without increase or decrease."

Directory:     Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Buddhism/Lineages/Zen/Teachings/Talks

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