From Cleary's masterpiece of scholarship fail Sayings of Zen I Like.
I do not understand Zen, I do not understand [the Way]; I only know how to dissolve glue and remove bonds, to give medicines according to ailments.
There is no Zen to study, no [Way] to learn. Abandoning the fundamental to pursue trivia, busily working on the externals, is not as good as coming back to get to know your own citadel.
In the citadel is your own spiritual monarch to honor, who answers a hundredfold when called once, who wants all people to wake up themselves.
Come, come! What you must do is put down your previous knowledge and views of [Zen] all at once; then the mental stamp of your own cosmic Buddha will be clear through and through.
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ewk book note index - Two popular themes on /r/Zen in one passage! "Wake up themselves" and "put down your previous knowledge". So popular! So popular that people who come in here say the name "Zen" but can't stand to hear about it. So, who wants to be popular?
Submitted August 01, 2017 at 10:43PM by ewk http://ift.tt/2uguml9
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