From Cleary's scholarship fail aka Teachings of Zen according to him, Ch'eng-ku
It is essential for yu to cease and desist from your previously held knowledge, opinions, interpretations, and understandings. It is not accomplished by stopping the mind; temporary relinquishment is not the way - it fools you to wasting body and mind, without accomplishing anything at all in the end.
I suggest to you that nothing compares to ceasing and desisting. There is nowhere for you to apply your mind. Just be like an imbecile twenty-four hours a day. You have to be spontaneous and buoyant, your mind like space, yet without any measurement of space.
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ewk book note index - I don't know who this guy is. I think he has a volume of recorded sayings that's never been translated. Anyway, there you have it. If you need somebody to teach you how to be an imbecile then you could start with the Three Stooges I suppose.
Submitted July 25, 2017 at 07:25PM by ewk http://ift.tt/2gZTGu4
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