Bodhidharma
The Dharma Gate of Pacifying the Mind (Anxin famen)
Traditional attribution
The Dharma Gate of Pacifying the Mind (Anxin famen)
安心法門
A short text, included in the Shaoshi liumen, that develops in aphoristic form the idea that the deluded mind and the awakened mind are not two and that peace is obtained not by suppressing phenomena but by understanding their nature. Its title recalls the famous legendary dialogue in which Bodhidharma 'pacifies' Huike's mind.
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Authorship note
A late attribution: the text does not appear in the sixth- and seventh-century sources, and scholarship (Faure, McRae, Broughton) regards it as the work of later Chan authors who used the patriarch's name to lend it authority.
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Other works by Bodhidharma
- Treatise on the Two Entrances and the Four Practices
- The 'Long Scroll': Dunhuang Compilation around the Two Entrances · 700
- The Bloodstream Sermon (Xuemai lun) · 1100
- The Wake-up Sermon (Wuxing lun) · 1100
- The Breakthrough Sermon (Poxiang lun) · 700
- Verses on the Heart Sūtra (Xinjing song)
- The Six Gates of Shaoshi (Shaoshi liumen)
- Sinew-Changing Classic (Yijin jing) · 1624
- Marrow-Washing Classic (Xisui jing) · 1650
Sources
- CBETA. Shaoshi liumen (少室六門), Taishō vol. 48, n.º 2009.
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