Here is a story.
Mazu said, “This mind itself is Buddha.” Damei (“Great Plum”) studied this more than thirty years, dwelling on his mountain top, hiding his traces in the sounds of the valley and the colors of the mountain.
The ancestor Mazu finally sent a monk to visit and say to Damei, “Mazu’s Buddha Dharma is different these days.” Damei responded, “How is it different?”
The monk said, “No mind, no Buddha.”
Damei said,“Even if he says ‘No mind,no Buddha,’ I just follow ‘This mind itself is Buddha.’” The monk returned and told the ancestor. Mazu said, “That plum is ripe.”
Dogen said: “This mind itself is Buddha” is most intimate. Year after year Damei ripened in the middle of summer.
Submitted February 21, 2018 at 05:50PM by planetbyter http://ift.tt/2okxJYb
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