How will you answer with all your reason and logic, knowledge and facts, biases and opinions, intelligence and cleverness, all your study and confidence? **All useless. ** How will you answer dumb and mute, with no self at all?

Bankei’s Unborn Mind.
Huang Po’s One Mind.
Shakyamuni’s Luminous Mind.
Bodhidharma’s Buddha Mind.
Ma-Tsu’s Ordinary Mind.

Why are all these men talking about a mind that doesn’t exist in the words of any language?

Why did Bodhidharma travel from India to China if the Buddha Mind can be shipped across seas in books of sutras?

When you think, the Personal Mind steps in and adds anger, greed, delusion, right, and wrong to every thought.

When you speak, the Personal Mind steps in and adds anger, greed, delusion, right, and wrong to every word.

When you act, the Personal Mind steps in and adds anger, greed, delusion, right, and wrong to every action.

When you read the 248 koans of the 3 great classics, will you read the words with the Buddha Mind, or will you add anger, greed, delusion, right, and wrong to every word on the page?

Examples

What’s the sound of one hand clapping?

Personal Mind: [thinking. speaking] Acthually, clapping is defined as two hands touching together rapidly to make a noise via sound waves, so one hand cannot clap, you thick imbecile. Do you even physics?

Buddha Mind: [imagining, speaking] A great booming thunder in the silent forest

A monk asked Fuketsu in all earnestness, “Both speech and silence are concerned with ri and mi. How can we transcend them?”

Personal Mind: [thinking, speaking] Acthually, silence and speech are opposites so there can be nothing outside of them. Metaphysically, however, the Buddha said you can reincarnate in the realm of the devas and experience true nirvana, which is beyond all reasoning, you illiterate heathen. Do you even sutra?

Buddha Mind: [imagining, speaking ] A 1000 mile waterfall, cascading bright blue water out into the infiniteness of pure black space.

Master Shōgen said, “Why is it that a man of great strength does not lift up his leg?” He also said, “It is not with the tongue that we speak.”

Personal Mind: [thinking, speaking] Acthually, all humans have free will and maybe the man was tired or just didn’t want to lift it, and yes we speak with our tongues. My cousin is a pre med doctor, take an anatomy class you ignoramus.

Buddha Mind: [imagining, speaking] Without lifting a leg, the man of great strength has already kicked over all the water in all seven oceans.

Nansen held up the cat and said, “You monks! If one of you can say a word, I will spare the cat. If you can’t say anything, I will put it to the sword

Personal Mind: [thinking, speaking] Acthually, that is animal cruelty. Animals have Buddha nature too and I think they are cute so you better not touch a hair on that cat. If you cut that animal you will fall into the realms of hungry ghosts and I will call PETA and the police, you horrible man Nansen. So don’t do it pleeeeease, let me adopt it instead!

Buddha Mind: [imagining] Nansen slicing the cat in half with a sword. [speaking] You old fool, you’ve already sliced it in two.

A monk asked Jōshū in all earnestness, “What is the meaning of the patriarch’s coming from the West?” Jōshū said, “The oak tree there in the garden.

Personal Mind: [thinking, speaking] Acthually, that is not true, the oak tree was a mistranslation in the documents, really it was juniper. Also China is also north of India not directly east, why don’t you open up a map and look you imbecile! Do you even geography?

Buddha Mind: [imagining] A big hairy man with one sandal hanging off a cane, riding a sketchy canoe made of reeds with a shit eating grin on his face. [speaking] Only a Kung Fu master in a canoe can transmit the Mind Seal to China, he does it with a shit eating grin on his face.

Submitted May 06, 2019 at 10:41PM by chadpills http://bit.ly/2DTB2gr