The following is from Outline of Practice. One of four works attributed to Bodhidharma in the book The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma translated by Bill Porter (translation pen name Red Pine). This appears to be the only text that scholars agree is likely from Bodhidharma and this is the only section in the text that uses "meditation" or "meditate". The other texts mention "meditate" or "meditation" but it appears that they were likely written posthumously and attributed to him at a later date. At least this is what Red Pine suggests in the introduction. This is the very first passage of Outline of Practice:
MANY roads lead to the Path 1, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion. Those who turn from delusion back to reality, who meditate on walls 2, the absence of self and other, the oneness of mortal and sage, and who remain unmoved even by scriptures are in complete and unspoken agreement with reason. Without moving, without effort, they enter, we say, by reason.
Footnote 2: Walls. After he arrived in China, Bodhidharma spent nine years in meditation facing the rock wall of a cave near Shaolin Temple. Bodhidharma’s walls of emptiness connect all opposites, including self and other, mortal and sage.
Edit: UhExist included the following passages in a comment below
Edited to include: Link to comment where I originally posted this
Submitted October 26, 2019 at 03:18PM by CaseyAPayne https://ift.tt/2MNsfBv
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