Buddha-nature, Buddhahood, Buddha-mind, Awakened One, Patriarch, God are merely different expressions for the same emptiness

 

These thin lines of India ink reveal all truth.

Students, sit earnestly in zazen, and you will realize that everything born in this world is ultimately empty, including oneself and the original face of existence. All things indeed emerge out of emptiness.  This original formlessness is “Buddha,” and all other similar terms-Buddha-nature, Buddhahood, Buddha-mind, Awakened One, Patriarch, God—are merely different expressions for the same emptiness. 

Ikkyu  (1394-1481)

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