Master Guishan Lingyou said: “Although you might have attained sudden enlightenment, you still need to overcome all the habitual tendencies accumulated since the beginningless time, which cannot be eradicated all at once, but have to get cleared away bit by bit through diligent practice in everyday life. What does it mean by practice? It means that whenever the mind gives rise to delusion again, you immediately clear it away (replacing it with Amituofo / Amitabha). There is no other way to practice.”
These words could only be spoken by a truly awakened person. Nowadays people consider themselves completely enlightened as soon as they attain a little understanding – how deluded they are!
by Grand Master Lian Chi (蓮池大師), the Eighth Patriarch of Pure Land Buddhism
悟後 – 錄自明末蓮池大師《竹窗隨筆》(初筆)
潙山和尚云:「如今初心，雖從緣得一念頓悟自理，猶有無始曠劫習氣未能頓淨，須教渠淨除現業流識，即是修也，不道別有法教渠修行趨向。」潙山此語，非徹法源底者不能道。今稍有省覺，便謂一生參學事畢者，獨何歟?
Buddha Mind 