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"You are self-sufficient when you are self-sufficient." What does "enough" mean?

"Sufficiency" means having all the wisdom and magical power as sufficient as Tathagata.

From: Section 8 of Six Ancestors Tanjing Travelling.

Original text: Sui Qizu said: "When the self is pure, when the self is immortal, when the self is self-sufficient, when the self is unshakable, when the self is born."

Interpretation: Huineng said to Wuzu: "I didn't expect my nature to be pure, immortal, perfect, firm, and everything to come from my nature."

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After the sixth ancestor realized, he said a few words about his own consciousness, calling it "self-nature, which is self-purity." What is the most distressing thing? I can't stop thinking and thinking too much. There are too many troubles to solve. No matter family, work or society, all kinds of troubles affect themselves, and they can't help worrying.

"When it is self-nature, it will never die." There is no birth and death of self, and there is no such thing. Thoughts are dying, cells are dying, the sun and the moon are spinning, and everything can't stop. They are all between life and death, between life and death, between life and death, between death and death, endless, karma-driven, and can't stop.

"You are self-sufficient when you are self-sufficient." I always feel that this is not enough and that is not enough. Always want to find some of this, find some of that, grab this, grab that. In fact, nature is full, but it is not enough.

"The self-nature of what period has never wavered." If you know this truth, you will not be afraid of earthquakes. There is no earthquake.

"When you are self-centered, you can have all kinds of laws." Once you realize nature, everything in the world can be seen clearly, just like the "yet we called and urged a thousand times before she started toward us" of Guanyin Bodhisattva, which will change infinitely at any time.

Therefore, the bodhi written by the six ancestors has no trees, and the mirror is not a stage. There is nothing, so there is no dust. "This is the meaning of nature.