Once more, all phenomena are basically without existence, though you cannot now say that they are nonexistent. Karma having arisen does not thereby exist; karma destroyed does not thereby cease to exist. Even its root does not exist, for that root is no root. Moreover, Mind is not Mind, for whatever that term connotes is far from the reality it symbolizes.
Form, too, is not really form. So if I now state that there are no phenomena and no Original Mind, you will begin to understand something of the intuitive Dharma silently conveyed to Mind with Mind. Since phenomena and no-phenomena are one, there is neither phenomena nor no-phenomena, and the only possible transmission is to Mind with Mind.
~ Huangbo Xiyin, On the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld, 1958
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Wandering Ronin commentary: At a certain point, all of these phenomena are seen clear through as if ghostly forms and smoke. What point really is there in arguing something about Zen when both parties involved, the words and even the thoughts themselves are all still the Dharma, just the same? What binding distinctions and extraneous concepts need to be made and held on to between this and that? Sometimes it seems that a correction is needed, but even that is a preference for something other than. There's nowhere to go, and nothing to be resolved.
Submitted May 09, 2019 at 01:18AM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2Vm2SN6
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