There are many different kinds of faith. Buddhism tells people who believe in causality and who like happiness to have faith in the ten virtues as sublime causes, and to have faith in humanity and the higher states as pleasant results. For those who enjoy empty quietude, belief in the conditions of birth and death is the right cause, while the way to extinction of causes of misery is the holy result. For those who like complete Buddhahood, faith in the six perfections over three aeons is the great cause; enlightenment and nirvana are the great results. In Zen, however, right faith is not the same as any of these. One does not have faith in any contrived causes or effects; it is only necessary to have faith that the intrinsic self is originally Buddha.
Chinul's Straightforward Explanation of the True Mind (Cleary translation)
Submitted September 02, 2017 at 04:19AM by Dhammakayaram http://ift.tt/2wr8sjs
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