From Cleary's scholarship fail, Xuansha, heir of Xuefeng:
The way of buddhas is wide open, without any stages. The door of nothing is the door to liberation; having no intention is the will to help others...
Move, and you produce the root of birth and death; be still, and you get drunk in the village of oblivion. If movement and stillness are both erased, you fall into empty annihilation; if movement and stillness are both withdrawn, you presume upon buddha nature.
You must be like a dead tree or cold ashes in the face of objects and situations while acting responsively according to the time, without losing proper balance. A mirror reflects a multitude of images without their confusing its brilliance; birds fly through the sky without mixing up the color of the sky.
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ewk book note index - It's all in there, from "The gateless gate is the gate to liberation" to birds fly through the sky without mixing up their color". I don't understand why people complain about sand being coarse or the sun being hot.
Submitted June 21, 2017 at 05:44PM by ewk http://ift.tt/2sTwJ15
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