Linji says

Linji says:

In my view there is no buddha, no sentient beings, no past, no present. Anything attained was already attained—no time is needed. Th ere is nothing to practice, nothing to realize, nothing to gain, nothing to lose. T h roughout all time there is no other dharma than this.

Compare these words with the following passage from the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment:

Excellent young man! Those bodhisattvas and sentient beings of the period of the decline of the dharma who achieve this attainment by practicing and cultivating this mind, have nothing to practice and nothing to attain. The universal luminance of perfect awakening, the nonduality of utter stillness—within this the hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of buddha-realms, countless as the sands of the Ganges, are like fl owers in the sky that appear at random and at random disappear. They are not in this nor are they separate from it; there is nothing that binds them and nothing for them to be released from. Th us it is apparent that from the beginning sentient beings have attained buddhahood, and that samsara and nirvana are like yesternight’s dream. Excellent young man! Because they are like yesternight’s dream, you must know that samsara and nirvana never arise and never disappear, never come and never go. What is realized is without anything to be gained or anything to be lost, without anything to be grasped or anything to be rejected. One who realizes has nothing to do and nothing to refrain from doing, nothing to let be as it is and nothing to get rid of. Within this realization there is no one who realizes and nothing that is realized. Aft er all, there is no realization and no realizer, for the nature of all dharmas is universality and indestructibility.

So if Linji and Buddha both says there are no buddhas and nothing to realize, why do you believe there are Zen Masters and anything they may be teaching?

Submitted August 07, 2016 at 12:42AM by ChanZong http://ift.tt/2aQNsY3