People who study zen nowadays are all like this; reading a transformative saying and reaching an insight into the words, they then try to apply it to all sayings, thinking they are all the same.
Mind is Buddha! Mind is not Buddha! Stick to one of these and you're already a million miles away. Now tell me, is mind buddha or not?
Keeping this in their hearts, they think of it as their own attainment; far from realizing they have lost their minds by entertaining an opinionated understanding, they cling to it and will not let go. What ignoramuses!
When Chaochou checked out the old hag telling people 'straight ahead' what did he discover?
I don't claim to have much in the way of manners, I'm just a grouchy tea drinker peeking my head in once in a while to see what the ruckus is but still same-old, same-old. Buddhists wanting this, new-agers wanting that, and the old thief pointing to the name over the door.
Submitted June 12, 2019 at 05:43AM by ThatKir http://bit.ly/2WBtQ41
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