Everyone has a torch giving off great light: originally it spontaneously illuminates heaven and earth; there is no distance to which it does not reach. It is no different from the buddhas and Zen masters, but when it gets covered by false ideas and material toils, so that it cannot come out, it is therefore necessary to use effort in study to polish it.
What is effort in study? It means placing your everyday mental and physical energies on one saying, without allowing any deviation. After a long time, not only will your mental and physical energies congeal into one mass; the whole earth, mountains and rivers, and the space of the ten directions will also congeal into a single mass, like an iron pill.
One day, through some chance event, the iron pill will explode, producing the eyes of Zen; then the mountains, rivers, and whole earth are all one vast treasure of light.
Yuan-hsien from Thomas Cleary's book, Teachings of Zen page i87
Submitted June 16, 2017 at 01:18AM by Dhammakayaram http://ift.tt/2sDUee0
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