'You see your nature and become a Buddha'

Make that a qualifier for what is and isn't Zen.

also:

'To say the Way is without a gate, in the end great numbers of people will be able to hold it and enter. To say the Way has a gate, does not flatter the master and divides the younger brothers' (i.e., monks) unity.'

The Ode says:

The Great Way is gateless,
Yet it has a thousand differing paths;
Able to pass through this checkpoint,
You stride alone through Heaven and Earth.

The checkpoint that isn't.

'Alas, the forced additions'

"Three pounds of flax” suddenly issued.

The words are intimate; the meaning is more intimate. Those who arrive at theories of right and wrong,

Are thus people of right and wrong.

...'Please, finish this one line'

Coming at it with the insight (Skt. vipassana) of the true eye, neither of the two great elders knows where the trailhead is at. [MM 61]

The Ode says:

In the time before a step is not yet raised, already arrived.

In the time before the tongue is not yet moved, speaking is completed.

Even though it is straight, the finish of the race is before the action.

Further, you should know to face above the openings.

Finally, back to the beginning:

Submitted May 06, 2019 at 03:09AM by AbjectEntrance http://bit.ly/2Ybyke5