From "The Record of Linji" (Ruth Fuller Sasaki, p. 22):
Followers of the Way, if you want insight into dharma as it is, just don’t be taken in by the deluded views of others.
Whatever you encounter, either within or without, slay it at once.
On meeting a buddha slay the buddha, on meeting a patriarch slay the patriarch, on meeting an arhat slay the arhat, on meeting your parents slay your parents, on meeting your kinsman slay your kinsman, and you attain emancipation.
Wumen:
A monk once asked Zhaozhou, "Has a dog the Buddha-nature?"
**Zhaozhou answered, "Mu!"
...
All the useless knowledge, all the wrong things you have learned up to the present, –throw them away!
After a certain period of time, this striving will come to fruition naturally, in a state of internal and external unity.
As with a dumb man who has a dream, you will know it for yourself, and yourself only.
Suddenly your whole activity is put into motion and you can astonish the heavens above and shake the earth beneath. You are just as if you had got hold of the great sword of Kan-u.
You meet a Buddha? You kill him! A master of Zen? You kill him!
By not cleaving to things, you freely pass through.
What about practices, precepts, rules, rituals and stuff???
Huangbo called to his attendant, "Bring me the backrest and armrest that belonged to my late teacher Baizhang."
"Attendant, bring me some fire!" cried Linji.
Among all the students from every quarter who are followers of the Way, none has yet come before me without being dependent on something.
Here I hit them right from the start. If they come forth using their hands, I hit them on the hands; if they come forth using their mouths, I hit them on the mouth; if they come forth using their eyes, I hit them on the eyes.
Not one has yet come before me in solitary freedom.
All are clambering after the worthless contrivances of the men of old.
Who are the "men of old"? Isn't Linji himself now a "man of old"? What "contrivances" is he talking about?
Wumen:
Huineng said, "“It is not that the wind is moving; it is not that the flag is moving; it is that your honourable minds are moving."
...
The wind moves, the flag moves, the mind moves,
All confirmed as guilty of error.
We know we open our mouths,
But we don’t know we go all wrong.
What about Wumen's verse here? Confirmed as guilty of error!
As for myself, I haven’t a single dharma to give to people. All I can do is to cure illnesses and untie bonds.
You followers of the Way from every quarter, try coming before me without being dependent upon things. I would confer with you.
I say to you there is no buddha, no dharma, nothing to practice, nothing to enlighten to.
Just what are you seeking in the highways and byways?
Blind men! You’re putting a head on top of the one you already have. What do you yourselves lack?
Followers of the Way, your own present activities do not differ from those of the patriarch-buddhas.
You just don’t believe this and keep on seeking outside. Make no mistake! Outside there is no dharma; inside, there is nothing to be obtained.
What is there to do? Whatever! "How?" is the more interesting question.
Better than grasp at the words from my mouth, take it easy and do nothing. Don’t continue [thoughts] that have already arisen and don’t let those that haven’t yet arisen be aroused.
I think it is important to understand that "not letting thoughts arise" doesn't mean "to not think". It's about striking thoughts down by not getting involved in their cause and effect. Using mind, not getting used by it.
From Cleary's "Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching Vol. 1 - 155. Mazu":
Maintaining a single flavor while containing all flavors, dwelling in the ocean you merge myriad streams, like someone bathing in the ocean, using all the waters.
Therefore disciples understand confusion, while ordinary people confuse understanding.
Submitted August 22, 2017 at 03:09PM by dec1phah http://ift.tt/2va2qQV
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