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From a Tung-huang document.
Quoted in D T Suzuki (1969)
The Zen Doctrine of No Mind; Rider;
ISBN 0091529719 p115


All is mind made. It is like a man's painting a devil, a creature from hell, or a dragon, or a tiger. He paints it, looks at it, and is frightened.

All is the brushwork of your own imagination

There is, however, nothing at all in the painted figure itself which is fearsome. All is the brushwork of your own imagination, your own discrimination.
From the first not a thing there is, except what you have made out of your own illusive mind.


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