TotEoTT #482
Master Yunmen said to an assembly, I cannot help but tell you to be free of concerns at once; this is already burying you away.
You still want to step forward seeking sayings, pursuing statements, seeking understanding, setting out challenges in a thousand different ways with myriad distinctions, gaining a slippery tongue for the moment while getting further and further from the Way. When will you ever stop? If this matter were in words, are there no words in the twelve-part canons of the three vehicles?
Why speak of a separate transmission outside of doctrine? If it came from learned interpretation and intellectual knowledge, the likes of the sages of the ten stages expound the Dharma like clouds and rain, yet are still criticized for their perception of essence being as if screened by gauze. Hence we know that all thinking is as far off as the sky is from earth.
Even so, if you have attained, you may speak of fire but it cannot burn your mouth. You may speak of things all day without it sticking to your lips and teeth—you haven’t said a word.
You may wear clothes and eat rice all day without ever touching a grain of rice or putting on a single thread. Even so, this is still talk of the doorway; you must really get to be this way before you can attain.
According to the school of patchrobed monks, potential is presented in a phrase—it is a waste of effort to stand there thinking. Even if you understand at a single statement, you are still snoozing.
At that time a monk asked, “What is a single statement?”
Yunmen said, “Brought up.”
Dahui said, “Snoozer.”
Submitted March 07, 2018 at 07:14PM by WheresNorthFromHere7 http://ift.tt/2FZX6G1
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