From The Sutra of Hui-Neng, Grand Master of Zen: With Hui-Neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra. Everything italicized is from the Diamond Sutra proper, the rest is Hui-Neng's commentary.
Activating insight from emptiness, question and answer illuminate each other. Therefore the sutra follows with a section on Subhuti initiating questioning1.
At that time the elder Subhuti was in the crowd. He rose from his seat, uncovered his right shoulder, knelt on his right knee, joined his palms in respect, and said to the Buddha, "It is wonderful, World Honored One, Howell the Realized One minds the bodhisattvas, how well he instructs the bodhisattvas."
The "Realized One" is original nature that comes from reality as is2. "Minding" means protecting the bodhisattvas with the teaching of prajnaparamita. "Instructing" means the Realized One hands on the teaching of prajnaparamita to Subhuti and the other great bodhisattvas. "Minding" means getting learners to mind their own bodies and minds with prajna wisdom3, not allowing arbitrary occurrences of hatred or love, or infection by external objects of the six senses, falling into the bitter sea of birth and death.
When every thought in your mind is always true, and falsehood is not allowed, the Realized One in your own nature skillfully minds itself4.
u/Nimtrix1849 Comments:
- Dharma combat instantly comes to mind. Whether it is master and disciple, master and master, or disciple and disciple, each one illuminates the other. There is nowhere to hide.
- Where else could it come from? No space for superstitious folk or liars.
- What else?
- The Realized One minds itself. Not himself, not herself, but itself. What is the falsehood spoken of?
Submitted June 05, 2019 at 06:37AM by Nimtrix1849 http://bit.ly/2QL98bT
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