Zhiyi Quotes on Truth
Zhiyi was a Chinese Buddhist philosopher, monk, and the principal founder of the Tiantai school of Mahayana Buddhism, whose lectures at Mount Tiantai in southeastern China set out the most ambitious systematic synthesis of Buddhist thought attempted in East Asia. This page collects quotes attributed to Zhiyi on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Zhiyi:
“Three thousand realms are present in a single thought.”
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Attributed to Zhiyi:
“The truth is threefold: emptiness, conventional designation, and the middle way.”
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Attributed to Zhiyi:
“All Buddhist teachings are the deliberate sequence of a single pedagogy.”
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Attributed to Zhiyi:
“Each instant of mind contains all the worlds; recognize this, and the path opens.”