Linji said:
If you try to ask, you have already deviated, and reality-nature and form have been separated. Make no mistake about it, people. All phenomena worldly and world-transcending are without a real fixed identity of their own, they have no inherent nature. There are just empty names, and names are empty too. If you go on this way accepting these empty names as real things, you are making a great mistake. Even if they are there, they are all objects and scenes dependent on transformation [for their temporary being]. There is also such a thing as depending on bodhi and nirvana and liberation, depending on the three bodies of buddha, depending on objective wisdom, depending on bodhisattvas and buddhas. What are you looking for in lands dependent upon transformation? Even the multi-part scriptural teachings of the three vehicles are just old paper for wiping away dirt. Buddha is an illusion, an apparition. The ancestral teachers were just old monks.
Weren’t you born from your mama? If you seek buddha, you are controlled by the delusion ‘buddha.’ If you seek the ancestral teachers, you are bound by the delusion ‘ancestral teachers.’ As long as you have seeking, it’s all suffering. Better to have no concerns at all.
To all monks, old, young, new, or grizzled: don't get spun out; one hand up, one hand down.
Submitted October 31, 2019 at 10:55PM by GreenSage45 https://ift.tt/2BVZ09F
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