Huang Po

Huang Po (c 850) was a Chinese Zen (Chan) Buddhist leader. He was a teacher of Dhyan Buddhism and was a leading Chinese Zen (Chan) master. P'ei Hsiu of the Tang dynasty collected his teachings and published them in book The Zen Teaching of Huang Po.

Wisdom & Quotes

• You must make the most strenuous efforts. Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
• Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone will you be on the right path to the Gate.

Ono no Komachi