Someone asked: “The buddhas and ancestors used so many methods and means in their teachings, how can there be nothing outside of seeing into your own nature is Buddhahood? Please elaborate on this.”
Bassui responded: “I became a monk in my later years, never learning the sutras. You tell me what Dharma there is other than seeing into your own nature is Buddhahood.”
Questioner: “According to the sutras, the World Honored One attained Buddhahood after mastering the Six Perfections. How can this be called seeing into your own nature?”
The Master replied: “What are the Six Perfections?”
The questioner said: “They are giving (dānā), keeping the precepts (śīla), patience (kṣānti), effort (vīrya), meditation (dhyāna), and wisdom (prajñā)."
"Giving one’s possessions to all without discrimination is called dānā. Keeping all the precepts strictly without exception is called śīla. Treating animosity and kindness impartially, not getting angry when slandered or beaten, is called kṣānti."
"Moving forward in the performance of good deeds without a break in one’s journey and carrying out one’s vow to completion is called vīrya."
"Sitting meditation [zazen] is called dhyāna. It means sitting in the correct posture in a quiet place and stilling the mind." [AssholeBuddha comment: It was at this moment trolling r/Zen was born.]
"Learning the sutras and teaching extensively and understanding completely the important aims of the Dharma without any hindrance is called prajñā.”
Bassui responded: “All of these bring you fortune for which you can secure a life in the world of humans or heavenly creatures. Performing these acts is commendable when compared to the acts of evil people—people with minds that covet, harm others, are immersed in hatred, are lazy, lack faith, are unstable in thought and action and ignorant of the Way—who fall into the three evil paths."
"But one cannot expect to attain Buddhahood from them. The Six Perfections that the Buddha practiced are themselves the right Dharma of seeing one’s Buddha-nature." [AssholeBuddha comment: This single sentence turned the wheel that eventually brought about the arising of u/Ewk]
"The true light of one’s original nature lights up ten thousand precious qualities and distributes this light equally in all directions to people in accord with their needs. This is called dānā."
"Buddhanature is pure from the beginning, the Master of the six sense organs, yet not stained by the six pollutants. The mind and body of one who realizes this will naturally be in harmony. He will not go out of his way to take the appearance of one keeping the precepts, nor will he generate evil thoughts. This is called śīla."
"Since the constancy of Buddha-nature doesn’t make any formal distinction between self and other, one in harmony with this will neither be angered when chastised nor rejoice when revered. This is called kṣānti."
"Buddha-nature is originally possessed of considerable benefit; it brings all merit to its completion, developing myriads of dharmas passes into the future, having no limits. This is called vīrya."
"Buddha-nature is unchanging, detached from all phenomena, goes beyond sects, forsakes rules, doesn’t distinguish between saints and ordinary people, and is not confined by words or colored by values of good and bad. This is called dhyāna." [AssholeBuddha comment: At this moment all future Zazenlightenment brigaders had their tongues removed.]
"Buddha-nature is clear in itself, lighting up ten thousand human qualities. It is the eyes of saints and ordinary people alike, lighting up the world like the sun and moon. It is the light that sweeps across the past and present—the boundless truth of pure light. This is called prajñā."
"The wonder of this true nature of ours is limitless. It is like the great ocean with its waves large and small. The six wondrous functions contained in one attribute of this original nature are called the Six Perfections of the Buddha."
"Hence one of the old Masters said: ‘As soon as you understand the Tathāgata’s Zen, the ten thousand deeds of the Six Perfections fill your body with tranquility.'"
-Bassui (pg. 50 of Mud & Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui)
AssholeBuddha Commentary:
Here we have Bassui directly disproving that Zazen has anything to do with Dhyana and the attainment of Buddhahood. That is all.
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Submitted November 08, 2019 at 08:17AM by AssholeBuddha https://ift.tt/2JZiHSr
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