When master Nanyue Rang first called on the sixth patriarch, the patriarch asked, “Where have you come from?”
He said, “From Mount Song.”
The patriarch said, “What thing has come this way?”
He said, “To speak of it as a thing would not be accurate.”
The patriarch said, “Does it take cultivation and realization?”
He said, “It’s not that there is no cultivation or realization, but if defiled it can’t be successful.”
The patriarch said, “It is just this nondefilement that the Buddhas keep in mind. You are now like this; I too am like this.”
AssholeBuddha Commentary:
Enjoying the relative benefits of conceptual thought and word while mentally unhindered by the entanglements they create; having no thought about what is thought about.
This is nondefilement.
This is what a follower of the Way is like.
You can only know for yourself.
Submitted November 22, 2019 at 09:01AM by AssholeBuddha https://ift.tt/2KLfJRL
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