Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
*175.Master Xuansha said to an assembly, *
The true school of the ancient Buddhas always manifests in response to people, adapting with dignity, shedding light everywhere, even-minded in concealment as in the open, thoroughly aware of high and low.
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Failing to meet good friends, or companions on the Way, they only go by their own subjective interpretations; even if they hold discussions, it is all speculative. Even when it comes to finding out the ground of principle, you do not distinguish true from false—of course you have never fished out your self in everyday life.
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It cannot be said that you will hit the mark by fasting, discipline, constant sitting without reclining, stopping the mind, meditating on emptiness, freezing the spirit, or entering concentration—what connection is there? Cultists in India can go into trances lasting eighty thousand eons, freezing the spirit in utter silence, closing their eyes, mortifying their bodies and annihilating their intellects; but when that period is up, they cannot escape repeating mundane routines, all because their perception of reality is not clear and they have not broken through the root source of birth and death.
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ewk note: People come into this forum and make claims about religious practices all the time... the fact is that they can't answer honestly in ordinary conversation... outside their practice, their beliefs are exposed as fakery.
These sorts of people have "never fished out" their self in everyday life. Why? Because they are so intent on being somebody that their religion tells them to be.
They don't have trust in self.
Submitted February 10, 2019 at 10:00AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2DAfAfN
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