Blofeld's* Zen Teaching of Huang Po*, available on Amazon just in time for Christmas:
The Sixth Patriarch continued: "While you are not thinking of good and not thinking of evil, just at this very moment, return to what you were before your father and mother were born."
Even as the words were spoken, Ming arrived at a sudden tacit understanding. Accordingly he bowed to the ground and said: "I am like a man drinking water who knows in himself how cool it is. I have lived with the Fifth Patriarch and his disciples for thirty years, but it is only today that I am able to banish the mistakes in my former way of thinking."
The Sixth Patriarch replied: "Just so. Now at last you understand why, when the First Patriarch arrived from India, he just pointed directly at men's Minds, by which they could perceive their real Nature and become Buddhas, and why he never spoke of anything besides."
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ewk book note index - There are people who claim to be "Buddhists" in this forum who can't define "Buddhism" or say what "Buddhists believe". What are they so afraid of? They can't even post about their beliefs about Buddhism in /r/Buddhism. Why?
Are they afraid of the First Patriarch of Zen? Or Huangbo?
Submitted November 29, 2017 at 09:53PM by ewk http://ift.tt/2zPCPmQ
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