Bankei Yōtaku ~ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 ~ Zen Buddhism

Bankei Yōtaku 盤珪永琢, 1622-1693) was a Japanese Rinzai Zen master,
and the abbot of the Ryōmon-ji and Nyohō-ji. He is best known for
his talks on the Unborn as he called it. Bankei was an immensely
popular and influential teacher who spoke directly. avoiding
sutras and ceremony. He adhered to no particular school and his
teaching was remarkably individual and raw, of the essence of
Zen. His concern was with the truth as an immediate experience,
not with a systematic approach to a distant goal. He preached
what he had discovered in his own experience—"the unborn" or "the
birthless Buddha-mind"—and he spoke in plain language that anyone
could understand.


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