Foyan takes off his clothes.

Instant Zen | Naked Realization

People who go journeying to study Zen today should bring a statement to harmonize with the teacher. Why do you pain yourself and cramp yourself as you do?

Let me also ask you, what teacher would you harmonize with? If you want to harmonize with a teacher, just get to know your own mind.

Now let me ask you, what is your mind? And how do you know it?

Here you cannot force an understanding; you must actually look inward and discover it.

The ancients had no choice but to make provisional expla­nations where there is no explanation, skillfully employing ex­pedient means where there are no expedients. One day when Xuansha went into the mountains, he encountered a tiger. His assistant told him there was a tiger there, but Xuansha just said, “It’s your tiger.”

Now with mountains and rivers crisscrossing the land, domains of existence everywhere, discriminating thoughts branching off in a thousand ways and diverging in a million ways, how can you explain this logic of “it’s yours”?

If you don’t understand this, you will be fatally obstructed everywhere. It’s just because you have been following material senses and been influenced by things since time immemorial. You try to point out—what are things, and what are you?

This is why a seeker asked Xuansha, “I have just entered the community; please show me a way of access.”

Xuansha said, “Do you hear the sound of the valley stream?”

The seeker said, “Yes.”

Xuansha said, “Gain access from here.

”Nowadays people do not clearly understand this story, sim­ply saying, “The essence of mind is omnipresent; who else hears?” What relevance has this sort of discourse? You must be com­pletely naked before you will attain realization.

For now I ask you, have you dressed?

You can be so shameless!

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It's funny Foyan should mention nudity - I've recently started seeing people naked underneath their clothes.

It helps breaking the concept of stereotypes and even the smallest amount of perceived authority.

Submitted May 20, 2019 at 10:53PM by UhExistence http://bit.ly/2watoKp