The Buddhas and Chan masters of all times and all places only emerge because of quest for truth.
People today who study the way only do so in quest of truth. Only when you get the truth are you done; as long as you haven’t gotten it, as before you revolve in mundane states. What is the truth? The truth is the element of mind. The element of mind is formless, and all-pervasive. It is being used right here and now, but people cannot trust it fully, so they learn terms and expressions, seeking their conceptual assessments in writings. They are as far from the Way as the earth is from the sky.
When I speak of the teaching, what teaching do I expound? I expound the teaching of the mind ground, which can enter into purity, into defilement, into the ordinary, into the holy, into the absolute, into the conventional; and yet is not your absolute or conventional, ordinary or holy. It can give names to all the absolute and the conventional, the ordinary and the holy, but no absolute or convention, nothing ordinary or holy, can affix a name to it.
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ewk note: Mazu talks about how Bodhidharma used the Lanka to "seal the mind ground", and, when you use a seal, the mark that it leaves is your objective, the seal is then discarded. The seal itself is not what enters into the ordinary, the holy, the absolute, or the conventional... the seal itself is those things. Speak up if you disagree.
Submitted January 28, 2019 at 05:48AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2RjZ4VQ
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