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Yongjia Xuanxue (Yoka Daishi)

Tradition: Zen Buddhism (Chan) | Era: Tang Dynasty China (665–713 CE) | Lineage: Chan (Zen) - Lineage of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng
Episodes analyzed: 1 | Average depth: 5.0/10

Compiled Truth

Immediate recognition of one's innate Buddha-nature (the 'leisurely one') which is already complete, uncreated, and beyond the dualities of seeking truth or avoiding fantasy; enlightenment is not an acquisition but a realization of what has never been lost.

Key Teachings

1. Immediate recognition of one's innate Buddha-nature (the 'leisurely one') which is already complete, uncreated, and beyond the dualities of seeking truth or avoiding fantasy; enlightenment is not an acquisition but a realization of what has never been lost.

Key Concepts

  • Non-duality of Samsara and Nirvana -- The realization that ignorance and enlightenment, or the physical body and the Dharma body, are not separate; the former is simply the latter unrecognized.

  • The Unborn Mind -- The essential nature of self that is not subject to birth, death, creation, or destruction.

  • Effortless Action -- Living naturally ('walking the Dao') without artificial striving, where moral actions arise spontaneously from realization rather than obligation.

    • Paradoxes

  • One is not born, yet not unborn.

  • The empty delusive body is the very body of the Dharma.

  • To seek the truth is to miss it; not avoiding fantasy is the way.

  • Spending the inner jewel freely yet it is never used up.

    • Cross-References

  • Tradition: Zen Buddhism (Chan)

  • Related masters in same tradition: Bodhidharma, Niutou Farong, Shitou Xiqian (Sekito Kisen), Yoka Daishi (Yongjia Xuanjue)

    • Timeline

  • [2026-04-11] 1 episodes imported from Wisdom of Masters analysis