The following quotes are from The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen by Hui-neng.
13th-century Korean Seon Master Chinul said, "While scriptures and treatises mostly speak of sitting practice, that is because it is easy to accomplish that way; they also include walking, standing, and so on, because a gradual development takes place . . . All four postures, sitting, standing, walking, and reclining--will work."
11th-century Chinese Master Ta-hui said:
"If you have been practicing quiet meditation but your mind is still not calm and free when in the midst of activity, this means you haven't been empowered by your quiet meditation. If you have been practicing quietude just to get rid of agitation, then when you are in the midst of agitation, the agitation will disturb your mind just as if you had never done any quiet meditation."
Buddha said:
"Squatting motionless will not purify a mortal who has not gotten over doubt and desire."
There are Three Bodies (Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya), these are the Three Jewels which are created in the Three Refuges (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha), and they are the purity of our Buddha Nature.
Ch'an Master Pai-chang said on Dharmakaya:
"The body of reality in its true aspect is called the Illuminator Buddha as the pure clear reality body; it is also called the empty reality-body buddha. It is also called the great perfect mirror knowledge, and it is called the eighth consciousness. It is also called the source of nature, and it is called the empty source. It is called the Buddha dwelling in the land that is neither pure nor defiled. It is also called the lion in its den. It is also called adamantine applied knowledge. It is also called the spotless altar, and it is also called the primary void. It is also called the hidden essence. The Third Grand Master said, "It is useless to work at concentration on stillness without knowing the hidden essence."
Sambhogakaya:
"Second, the reward-bost buddha is the Buddha under the tree of enlightenment. This is also called the illusory transformation buddha, and it is called the beatified buddha. This is called the Luminous Buddha as the completely fulfilled body of reward. It is also called the knowledge of the essential equality of things, and it is also called the seventh consciousness. It is also called the Buddha as result in accord with cause. It is equal in all the fifty-two stages of meditation, equal in saint and self-enlightened ones, equal in all bodhisattvas, and is equally subject to such pains as birth and death, but is not equally subject to the misery of sentient beings' binding habits.
Nirmanakaya:
Third is the projection-body Buddha. Now in the midst of all things, existent and nonexistent, when there is utterly no influence of longing, and no indifference either, detatched from the four propositions [of being, nonbeing, neither, or both], such words and intelligence as there may be is called Shakamuni Buddha with a thousand hundred hundred thousand projection bodies. It is also called the great miraculous projection, and it is called sporting in spiritual powers. It is also called subtle analytic observational knowledge, and it is called the sixth consciousness.
(What isn't mentioned are the first-to-fifth consciousnesses which are the "perfection of action" wisdom!)
So is meditation purely "sitting, walking, standing"?
No, it is living! It is cultivating the luminous void nature and the three bodies, which come with the four-fold wisdom (the full moon!)
A monk asked, "What is meditation?"
The master said, "It is not meditation."
The monk said, "Why is it 'not meditation'?
The master said, "It's alive, it's alive!"
The moon is reflected into every dew drop on the grass.
Submitted December 25, 2017 at 09:13PM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2l81SY8
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