The shared center — held across the tradition
Awakening is sudden, not gradual.
Satori breaks in all at once; practice prepares the ground but cannot manufacture it.
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The teaching passes mind to mind, outside the scriptures.
Lineage over literature: realization is transmitted teacher to student, face to face.
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Sitting is itself enlightenment, not a means to it.
Zazen is not a technique aimed at a result; the sitting itself is the realized state.
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Ordinary mind is the way.
No special state to attain — walking, eating, chopping wood are the way itself.
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Words point at the moon. Do not mistake the finger for it.
Doctrine — including this list — is a pointer. Useful, and not the thing.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
Impermanent; empty of fixed essence
After death
Rebirth, until awakening ends it