"Originally, what people call the precepts were all for wicked monks who broke the rules; for the man who abides in the Unborn Buddha Mind, there's no need for precepts. The precepts were taught to help sentient beings—they weren't taught to help buddhas! What everyone has from his parents innately is the Unborn Buddha Mind alone, so abide in the Unborn Buddha Mind. When you abide in the Unborn Buddha Mind, you're a living buddha here today, and that living buddha certainly isn't going to concoct anything like taking the precepts, so there aren't any precepts for him to take. To concoct anything like taking the precepts is not what's meant by the Unborn Buddha Mind. When you abide in the Unborn Buddha Mind, there's no way you can violate the precepts. From the standpoint of the Unborn, the precepts too are secondary, peripheral concerns; in the place of the Unborn, there's really no such thing as precepts. . . ."
~Bankei
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The Master further said: "I don't teach people by quoting from the words of the buddhas and patriarchs. Since I can manage simply by dealing with people's own selves, there's no need on top of that to quote the words of the buddhas and patriarchs too. I don't talk about Buddhism, and I don't talk about Zen. There's really no need to talk about these things. Since I can manage perfectly just by dealing with people's own selves as they are right here today, there's no need for me to talk about Buddhism, or Zen either. . . .
~Bankei
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A certain monk said: "For a long time now I've been working on the koan 'Hyakujo and the Wild Fox,' but in spite of all my efforts, I still haven't solved it. I suspect this is simply because my practice isn't pure. I beg your Reverence to instruct me." The Master said: "Here in my place we don't engage in such studies of old wastepaper!
~Bankei
Submitted January 24, 2019 at 08:37PM by Bingo_Maru http://bit.ly/2RNVhp0
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