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It is the "self-nature" using whatever is at hand to throw off the veil of the personality and come to the fore as a "pure consciousness event" awareness without any object of thought.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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It is the "self-nature" using whatever is at hand to throw off the veil of the personality and come to the fore as a "pure consciousness event" awareness without any object of thought.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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How could I expect that the self-nature is in and of itself self-sufficient, with nothing lacking in it!
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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Indeed, the laughter and surprise seem in large part a response to recognizing our own self-nature, whose intrinsically enlightened state has, until that moment, been hidden from us by the conditioned nature of our personality as the old saying goes, It is like turning the corner in a strange city and bumping into your father -- of course, you recognize him.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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How could I expect that the self-nature is in and of itself immutable and imperturbable!
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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How could I expect that the self-nature is in and of itself unborn and undying!
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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When he came to the sentence, "Keep your mind alive and free without abiding in anything or anywhere," Hui-neng was suddenly and thoroughly enlightened, realizing that all truths are inseparable from self-nature.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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It is this very penchant to conceive of awakening as a stereotyped experience from which we will act in a stereotyped manner that keeps us from accepting our innate "self-nature" without any of the stereotyped trappings of enlightenment.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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Ecstatically he said to the Fifth Patriarch, How could I expect that the self-nature is in and of itself so pure and quiet!
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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How could I expect that the self-nature is capable of giving birth to all truths!
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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