There is no particular pathway into it. If your own self is clear and everything is It, when you visit a teacher you do not see that there is a teacher; when you inquire of yourself, you do not see that you have a self. ... When you see in this way, are you not independent and free?
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There is nothing in my experience that is not true. If there were anything at all untrue, how could I presume to guide others? As for you, obviously there is something not true; that is why you come to someone to find certainty.
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If you know that falsehood is fundamentally the path, then there is no falsehood in it. Therefore those who master the path have no attainment. Just do not seek elsewhere, and realize there is no confusion or falsehood; this is called seeing the path. The path is inherently always out in the open. Thus for those who attain the path, there is nothing that is not it.
Zen Teachings of Fo-yen: Sermons by Chinese Zen Master Fo-yen Ching-yuan (1067-1120)
Instant Zen: Waking Up in the Present, by Thomas Cleary,1994 [source: Terebess]
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Wandering Ronin commentary and questions: Alright, I'm done... there is no one to be saved, and there is nothing further to attain. I am at peace for now in the middle of the war. Questions, answers, seeking, not seeking, unsheathe, sheathe. What can be said about it, and what can one gain that isn't already there? That is all.
Submitted January 29, 2019 at 02:44AM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2TkPHXI
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