Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
Master Zhenjing said,
Chan worthies, this matter requires close attention; don’t be crude minded. First class study of Chan ultimately gets to the bottom of it; the thousand differences and myriad distinctions in the school of the source, the different routes of concealing and revealing, only those of great wisdom understand.
Ever since, no one has fathomed this, and so many hug a child who isn’t crying, hit a clean ball, hold the mooring rope while launching the boat, hold onto a bridge pillar to wash. Everyone is capable—who has no share?
If you understand all at once, you drive off the plowman’s ox, take away the hungry man’s food, enter fire without burning, enter water without drowning, not lingering anywhere, fulfilled everywhere, spiritual light shining alone, clearly distinct. This can be called being clear and free, raising the sail to cross over to the shore, setting in motion the boat that carries people over, appearing and disappearing in the heaps of foaming waves in the ocean of birth and death, going and coming, roaming independently. (shouting) Let others slander, let others repudiate; wearing both rain hat and raincoat in the rain, now I temporarily part from the moon at the strait and for the moment carry fish back to market.
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ewk note: Our internet gurus and self anointed messiahs like to "appear" in the forum, but who likes to disappear? Zhaozhou student denied the oak tree, Wumen's book denied everything. Are you here to study Zen or not?
It's a simple question, or it would be if this were /r/science or /r/AbrahamLincoln. You can't disappear first. You can't just appear. It's good advice.... don't hold the mooring rope while launching the boat.
Submitted June 05, 2019 at 03:27AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2K0wny2
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