Have faith in yourself, just act.

This is from Thích Nữ Thuần Bạch's The Sayings of Zen Master Linji Yixuan:

“If you want to act, just act. Don't ever be intimidated. You students nowadays don't get it. What is the disease?

“The disease is a lack of self-confidence. If your faith is insufficient, you will keep on wandering in confusion. No matter what the circumstances, you will be controlled and led by others. You will not find freedom.

“Make no mistake, virtuous Zen students. If you don't meet this right now, you will transmigrate in the three realms for ten thousand kalpas and thousands of lives, led by your preferences to be reborn as a donkey or a cow.

“Followers of the Way, according to this mountain monk's view, we are not different from Shakyamuni. Is there anything you lack in your everyday activities? The six rays of divine light never cease shining.

The six-rayed divine light refers to the marvelous activities of the six sense organs (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind), which are here compared to rays of light.

The same idea is expressed in Yongjia‘s Song of Enlightenment:

The Mani-jewel – people do not know

That they themselves have received it from Tathagata‘s womb.

Its six-fold divine functioning is empty, yet not empty,

Its one perfect luminance embraces all colors, yet not color.

“If you can understand in this way, then you'll just be a person of buji (nothing to do) throughout your life.

Submitted June 27, 2017 at 11:13PM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2sXZgzm