(Blyth)
The Case
Nansen said, "The mind is not the Buddha; knowledge is not The Way."
Nansen's Commentary
There are no words whatever in the Empty Kalpa [complete dis-integration]. But when a Buddha appears in the world, then words come into existence, and consequently we are attached to these forms of things... Just because we are so attached to words we become limited, and lose our universal nature. The Great Way knows no wise man or foolish man, no saint or sinner. But when words and names exist, everything belongs to the finite. So the old master of Kosei says, "It is not mind, not Buddha, not things."
Blyth's Commentary
When we walk there is a way, and when we stop walking there is none. When we walk the Way, the Way exists, and not unless. What is walking the Way? It is movement, as said before, from one poetic point to another, and these "points" get stronger and yet more delicate as we move through them. [...] While we are climbing the mountain we have what Mumon calls "faith." While we are sitting at home we have what Nansen calls "knowledge," intellection. While we are climbing the mountain we have no mind, no Buddha. When we sit at home we scream for the Buddha to help us.
wrrdgrrl wonders: How does one declaw knowledge to make its clinging less painful?
Submitted March 18, 2018 at 02:00AM by wrrdgrrl http://ift.tt/2IxfLtZ
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