Instant Zen, Cleary, p.76-77.
Foyan:The Zen school is called the school of Kasyapa's great absorption in quiescence. Without stirring a thread, all is understood; without stirring a hair, all is realized.
What is so absorbed?
It is not just a matter of not stirring and letting it go at that. Do not rouse the mind or stir thoughts throughout the twenty four hours of the day, and you should be able to comprehend everything. This is called being a member of Kasyapa's school. Only then can you enter great absorption in quiescence.
Such great absorption!
Now what is there that acts as a mental object and an obstruction? Although people can investigate, people can study, they cannot understand by arousing the mind and stirring thoughts. When you encounter a situation or hear a saying, if your thoughts stir, your mind gets excited, and you make up an interpretation, in any case you are in a scattered state.
Who's scattered?
When Elder Ming has accomplished "not thinking good or bad," only then did he manage to see; thereupon he said, "Although I was in the school of the Fifth Patriarch of Zen, I really did not know what the Buddha meant by saying, 'Not this shore, not the further shore, not the current in between.'"
Bad Buddha.
Nanquan said, "it is not Buddha, it is not a thing." This is precisely what you are focusing on now. Simply study in this way.
Good Buddha.
Just as a scholar has the attitude of an official once he's passed the civil service examination, you must come to the realization that you are Buddha; only then will you be free from doubt. Each of you must take responsibility for this yourself; don't pass the time pursuing the hubbub.
What would Buddha do?
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