Quotes are taken From The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue:
Samadhi (Death), Relinquishing Life:
"Rather, as an experiment, try to concentrate mind on the ungraspable state, the tasteless state. When you can't concentrate your mind, can't grasp, and gradually become aware that there is no sword hilt to grip, and that rationality and the eight consciousnesses have become inoperative like earth, wood, tile, and stone, don't fear [that this is] falling into [the extreme view of an annihilationist] emptiness. This is the state wherein yuo, the person on duty, relinquishes his life. You must not be neglectful! You must not be neglectful!"
Rejecting Mundane Knowledge and Cleverness in Argument:
"Most people of cleverness and sharpness are blocked by their cleverness [and sharpness]. And so their eye of the Way doesn't open up. No matter where they go, they are "stopped up." Sentient beings, from beginningless time, are under the sway of the eight consciousnesses, drifting about in samsara, incapable of existing on their own. If you really want to escape samsara and become a happy fellow, you must at the single stroke of the sword, sever the passageways of the eight consciousnesses, and then you will have some small increment of correspondence [with this matter]. Therefore, Yonjia said: "As for inflicting damage on the Buddhadharma, and extinguishing karmic merit: There are no cases that do not arise from these eight consciousnesses." How could Yongjia have been lying to people?"
Scolds About Surmising and Conjecturing:
A little while back I received your letter. All sorts of inclinations in that letter are [Chan] illnesses that I have railed at in the past. Realize that these sort of Chan illnesses are rolling around in the back of your head. Now, at the baseless state, the ungraspable state, the tasteless state, as an experiment, try to do a gongfu: a monk asked Zhaozhou: "Does even a dog have buddha-nature?" Zhou said: "Wu". The usual clever person, as soon as he hears this standard raised, immediately understands it using the eight consciousnesses, makes surmises and quotes proof texts--he wants the master's handing over [of the "seal"]. Little does he imagine that [wu] doesn't allow quoting proof of texts, doesn't allow surmising, doesn't allow using the eight consciousnesses to understand. Even though he can quote proof texts, can make surmises, can understand, its all nothing more than random extreme views produced by defiled consciousness within the weather-beaten skull. [At this rate] on the shore of Samsara, he will never gain [awakening] energy!
Submitted December 26, 2017 at 07:54PM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2BS3f8t
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