"Advanced Seats [i.e., students]! Rebirth as a human is difficult to obtain, and it is difficult to hear the buddhadharma. If you can’t liberate yourself in the present life, then in just what life will you be able to liberate yourself? You people want to make a hands-on investigation of Chan? Then you must let go. But let go of what? Let go of the four elements [i.e., earth, water, re, and wind] and the five aggregates [i.e., form, feelings, perceptions, karmic predispositions, and consciousness that constitute individual existence in samsara]. Let go and put down all that karmic consciousness coming from immeasurable past aeons. Investigating right under your own feet, keep an eye on [the hua-tou]: how come? If you keep on pushing, suddenly the mind-flower will become enlightened, illuminating the buddha-fields of the ten directions" (A Small Gathering Address by Chan Master Sixin Xin of Huanglong).
Submitted June 16, 2017 at 03:40AM by Dhammakayaram http://ift.tt/2sgl3Ch
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