He may be delighted by his discovery of some 'way to Enlightenment'; yet if you allow yourselves to be persuaded by him, YOU will experience no delight at all, but suffer both sorrow and disappointment. What have such thoughts as his to do with the study of Zen? Even if you do obtain from him some trifling 'method', it will only be a thought constructed dharma having nothing to do with Zen. Thus, Bodhidharma sat rapt in meditation before a wall; he did not seek to lead people into having opinions.
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ewk book note index - Religious people come into this forum and repeat Dogen's claim, now proven fraudulent, that "wall gazing" prayer-meditation can make you a Buddha.
Huangbo disagrees.
Methods are not Zen. Why pretend?
Submitted August 23, 2017 at 01:25AM by ewk http://ift.tt/2wvNzEO
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