Monday, 8 August 2016

Three Excerpts from Huang Po

It is that which you see before you -- begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be measured or fathomed.

Keep on forward! Huang Po, like a doting grandmother, prods the gruel into the child's mouth.

By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using the Buddha to seek for the Buddha and using mind to grasp mind.

Like a cat chasing its tail the novice sits by not attending to the great matter.

They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them.

What a motley collection of blabbermouths this family is -- watch your step around them, they're a slippery bunch.



Submitted August 08, 2016 at 09:13PM by yofz http://ift.tt/2aFB9uz

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