★ What Is "Leaving No Trace In Daily Activity" ?
◆ Chan Gongans (Zen Koans) of Chan Master Baizhang Huaihai : --- _▲“One day Baizhang Huaihai accompanied Mazu Daoyi on a walk to the suburbs. A flock of wild ducks flew past them. Mazu asked, ‘What’s that？’ Baizhang said, ‘Wild ducks.’ Mazu asked again, ‘Where would they go？’ Baizhang said again, ‘They flew away.’ Mazu then turned around and twisted Baizhang’s nose so hard that he cried out. Mazu said, ‘So you say they have flown away！’ Upon hearing this, Baizhang attained great enlightenment.
_▲ On another occasion Baizhang was in attendance to Master Ma. Mazu took a look at the whisk sitting on the corner of the Chan bed. Baizhang said, ‘When merging into the function, simultaneously depart from this function.’ Mazu said, ‘In the future if you begin to do the teaching, how will you help people？’ Baizhang picked up the whisk and held it upright. Mazu said, ‘When merging into the function, simultaneously depart from this function.’ Baizhang placed the whisk back on its stand. Mazu suddenly let out an earth-shaking shout so loud that Baizhang was deaf for three days.”
◆ Beishi Guohan's Commentary : -----
_▲ Mazu Daoyi first applied the great function of “The bird flies in the sky, there is no trace in the bird’s track” to receive Baizhang Huaihai, and let him have an insight into his true mind, see into his self-nature, and greatly realize “the ordinary mind is the Way”. Afterwards, Mazu again used the testing strategy of “When merging into the function, simultaneously depart from this function” to confirm the deeper realization of Baizhang. As a matter of fact, if in discoursing the Mind Dharma of Patriarch/Matriarch Chan, all is intrinsically ready-made. General Chan practitioners ought to straightly apply the ordinary mind of non-abiding awareness, and move down-to-earth every step on the way, so as to realize “no obstruction in the interbeing of phenomena and noumena”. Then, they once again transcend upward one way to become host of the host with the mind of pure wisdom of spontaneousness & effortlessness, and ultimately and completely actualize “the patient-rest in non-arising” to live their daily lives with “wearing clothes, taking a meal, and sleeping while tired”. Until now, they are able to manifest the wisdom of differences (sequential wisdom) and unfold their hands for affording skillful explications, in order to receive Chan practitioners to directly penetrate into the gate of non-arising.
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Submitted June 27, 2017 at 04:34PM by 3DimenZ http://ift.tt/2rXb57V
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