Mumon's Preface:
Buddhism makes mind its foundation and no-gate its gate.
Now, how do you pass through this no-gate?
It is said that things coming in through the gate can never be your own treasures. What is gained from external circumstances will perish in the end.
However, such a saying is already raising waves when there is no wind. It is cutting unblemished skin.
As for those who try to understand through other people's words, they are striking at the moon with a stick; scratching a shoe, whereas it is the foot that itches. What concern have they with the truth?
In the summer of the first year of Jõtei, Ekai was in Ryûshõ Temple and as head monk worked with the monks, using the cases of the ancient masters as brickbats to batter the gate and lead them on according to their respective capacities.
The text was written down not according to any scheme, but just to make a collection of forty-eight cases.
It is called Mumonkan, "The Gateless Gate."
A man of determination will unflinchingly push his way straight forward, regardless of all dangers.
Then even the eight-armed Nata cannot hinder him.
Even the four sevens of the West and the two threes of the East would beg for their lives.
If one has no determination, then it will be like catching a glimpse of a horse galloping past the window: in the twinkling of an eye it will be gone.
Verse:
The Great Way is gateless,
Approached in a thousand ways.
Once past this checkpoint
You stride through the universe.
Submitted August 11, 2016 at 09:23PM by Namtaru420 http://ift.tt/2bk31L1
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