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. Let me know what you guys think of Hui-Neng's commentary.
The source is beyond true and false, the vehicle has no great or small; but teaching and liberation are carried out according to the differences in people's faculties. To set aside different doctrines and single out the worthy, the sutra follows up with a section on the true source of the Great Vehicle.
The Buddha said to Subhuti, "The bodhisattva mahasattvas should conquer their minds thus:"
When the preceding thought is pure and the succeeding thought is pure, this is called being a bodhisattva. When one does not regress, thought after though, and one's mind is always pure even in the midst of worldly toils, this is called a mahasattva.
Also, teaching and liberating people with kindness, compassion, joyfulness, and equanimity, and all sorts of appropriate skills, is called being a bodhisattva. Those who are not mentally fixated on either the teacher or on those taught are called mahasattva.
Respecting all living beings is where you conquer your own mind. Reality does not change, suchness does not differ: when the mind does not change or differ in any situation that is called reality as such.
Also, not being artificial outwardly is called reality, not being vacuous inwardly is called suchness. When there is no digression thought to thought, that is called conquering the mind.
u/Nimtrix1849 Thoughts:
What does Hui-Neng mean by purity of preceding and succeeding thoughts? Perhaps he gives us a clue later when he says "no digression thought to thought". His comment reminds me of two of Wumen's warnings: making progress is an intellectual illusion and retrogression is to go against our religion.
Submitted June 06, 2019 at 05:01AM by Nimtrix1849 http://bit.ly/2wEMCIi
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