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Phap Hien was a Vietnamese Zen master. He lived in the late 5th century and early the 6th century.
When he was a young monk at the Phap Van Temple he met Vinitaruci (?-594) who was one of the
successors of Seng-tsan, the Third Patriarch... continue...

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ABOUT EMPTINESS (SUNYATA)
Like using water to quench fire burning,
The emptiness of dharmas has been talked about by wise men,
In order to help people to stop raising views and holding on them,
To get themselves liberated and free.
If one now raises his views of emptiness and holding on them,
then he cannot be helped, because he entirely misunderstood of it,
Unless, he himself must empty his views of emptiness first.

ChonTri

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