Huangbo Xiyun
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Huangbo Xiyun (Simplified Chinese: }}}; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün) (died 850) was an influential Chinese master of Chan Buddhism. He was born in Fujian, China in the Tang Dynasty. Later he became a monk in Huangbo Shan (lit. Huangbo Mountain). That is how he got his name.
Huangbo was a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai (Japanese: Hyakujo Ekai) and the teacher of Linji (Japanese: Rinzai).
Principal Philosophy Freeing the mind of all conceptual thinking was his primary teaching as he believed all myriad teachings ultimately led to the same stage when one had to give up conceptual thinking.
There is not a single thing, not even an atom on which the mind can rest. Nothing has any independent existence of its own. All senses and perceptions by themselves and as a whole are void. To understand this and be one with one's true nature,conceptual thinking has to be given up.
He warns: In the pursuit of enlightenment, if one abandons perceptions and senses, it will lead to nought. Perceptions are as much a manifestation of the true nature as the Buddha himself. Only stop conceptualising about the existence or non existence of perceptions, secure in the knowledge that nothing has an independent existence of its own.
He admonishes: People are afraid to give up their minds, in the belief that they will tumble into the Void and be lost forever. They do not know that the Void is the true realm of the Buddha from whence all forms and activities spring.
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