Hui Hai Isn't Bhaizang

u/keysersozen pointed it out to me the other day.

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I purchased Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening after completing Huangbo's Transmission of Mind, thinking I was going to find out about Huangbo's teacher.

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As I read through the former, I looked for teachings that resembled the latter—there were several, but as u/keysersozen pointed out, Hui Hai is not Bhaizang; and I had them mixed up.

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At any rate, here are two excerpts from the book that stood out to me; and I want to add that this dude had to answer a lot of questions from students from all sorts of 'Buddhist' and 'Taoist' schools so there were a lot of sanskrit words in this text—much more so than in the Huangbo.

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You should know know that setting forth the principle of deliverance in its entirety amounts only to this — when things happen, make no response: keep your minds from dwelling on anything whatsoever: keep them for ever still as the void and utterly pure: and thereby spontaneously attain deliverance.

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And:

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Q: Whereon should the mind settle and dwell? . A: It should settle upon nondwelling and there dwell. .

Q: What is this nondwelling? . A: It means not allowing the mind to dwell upon anything whatsoever.

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Q: And what is the meaning of that? . A: Dwelling upon nothing means that the mind is not fixed upon good or evil, being or nonbeing, inside or outside, or somewhere between the two, void or nonvoid, concentration or distraction. This dwelling upon nothing is the state in which it should dwell; those who attain to it are said to have nondwelling minds — in other words, they they have Buddha-minds!

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Note: I think later on down the timeline of Zen Masters, several transcended this teaching by not even having "nondwelling" minds.

Submitted June 22, 2017 at 09:04PM by kaneckt http://ift.tt/2rGu2vd