Wisdom of Dispassion

Q; What is meant by relative truth?

A: What would you do with such a parasitical plant as that? Reality is perfect purity; why base a discussion on false terms? To be absolutely without concepts is called the Wisdom of Dispassion. Every day, whether walking, standing, sitting or lying down, and in all your speech, remain detached from everything within the sphere of phenomena. Whether you speak or merely blink an eye, let it be done with complete dispassion. Now we are getting towards the end of the third period of five hundred years since the lime of the Buddha, and most students of Zen cling to all sorts of sounds and forms- Why do they not copy me by letting each thought go as though it were nothing, or as though it were a piece of rotten wood, a stone, or the cold ashes of a dead fire? Or else, by just making whatever slight response is suited to each occasion? If you do not act thus, when you reach the end of your days here, you will be tortured by Yama.* -- Huang Po

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Some madman shrieking on the mountain-top, on hearing the echo far below, may go to seek it in the valley. But, oh, how vain his search! Once in the valley, he shrieks again and straightway climbs to search among the peaks-why, he may spend a thousand rebirths or ten thousand aeons searching for the source of those sounds by following their echoes! How vainly will he breast the troubled waters of life and death! Far better that you make no sound, for then will there be no echoand thus it is with the dwellers in Nirvana! No listening, no knowing, no sound, no track, no trace-make yourselves thus and you will be scarcely less than neighbours of Bodhidharma! -- Huang Po

Submitted July 27, 2017 at 10:58PM by Kyuu-bi http://ift.tt/2uBwOpC