Pure mind accepts all things as they are in it, without any particular desires attached to them.
Editors’ noteSections 3 through 12 are Huineng’s description of how the Fifth Patriarch came to give him the robe and bowl which signified that he was chosen to transmit the Law as the Sixth Patriarch. There was a competition to see who could write a verse which indicated that the author understood the basic idea. When Hui-neng won the competition, the Fifth Patriarch warned him not to remain there because his life might be in danger.