As far as published English translations of zen texts from China this is, to my knowledge, chronologically one of the last ones we have. If someone has something from China beyond 1300, excluding Boshan, bring it forward!
Cleary himself provides little info on the dramatis personae of the text, as well how this manuscript(or blockprint?) ended up making its way to the 21st century.
Between ancient and modern there's not a hairsbreadth [of difference]. So wherever you are, take the straightforward mind as your site of enlightenment, take straightforward conduct as your work to serve Buddha, take straightforward speech as your true repentance, and use straightforward action to add power and maintain it.
If you act otherwise, you are falsely cheating yourself, and you are someone with whom the buddhas and Zen masters do not associate.
The intent of our teaching is like a poison-smeared drum. Once it is beaten, those who hear it, near and far, all perish.
When the other experts of the Zen school who had the great eye showed a device or imparted a saying, those who heard went deaf, and those who saw were awestruck. Some rubbed their palms and laughed. Some held up their hands and waved them around. Some stretched out and ran toward it. With some, both knees spontaneously buckled. These are all cases of perishing at the sound of the drum.
Do not worry about thoughts arising
Just fear you will be slow to awaken
Awakening is itself a disease
What medicine can cure it?
Abandon everything, don't think about it
When refined gold goes into the fire it naturally glitters
Nothing straightforward about people whose self-avowed mystical & esoteric doctrines can't stand the scrutiny of a few bozo's on /r/zen.
In the end, these guys are just falsely cheating themselves and aren't someone with whom Buddhas & Zen Masters are walking hand-in-hand with.
How will anyone cure the disease of awakening?
Submitted January 23, 2020 at 07:06AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2TLH6R3
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