Learning Zen is called a gold and dung phenomenon. Before you understand it. it's like gold; when understood, it's like dung.
As soon as you accept and approve anything, recognizing it as your own, you are immediately bound hand and foot and cannot move. So even if there are a thousand possibilities, nothing is right once you have recognized, accepted, and approved it as your own.
It is like making a boat and outfitting it for a long journey to a land of treasures, then as soon as you get started you drive a stake in the ground and tie the boat down, then row with all your might. You may roll till the end of time, but you will still be at the shore. You see the boat moving from side to side, and think you are on the move; but actually you haven't gotten anywhere.
Buddhism is an easily understood, energy-saving teaching; people strain themselves. Seeing them helpless, the ancients told people to try meditating quietly for a moment. These are good words, but later people did not understand the meaning of the ancients; they went off and sat like lump with knitted brows and closed eyes, suppressing body and mind, waiting for enlightenment. How stupid! How foolish!
1) You don't gain anything precious by studying zen.
2) It's not a matter of crossing from one side to another.
3) Painting leaves gold to stop crying children is not what the lineage teaches.
Now that "AMA!" has been coming back in vogue lately it is high time to remind people that these informal q/a posts have, by their establishment of communal accountability, chased trolls, cultists, and self-promoters out of the forum and revealed illiteracy and religious zealotry.
Any questions?
Submitted January 06, 2020 at 08:30AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2QsfwGv
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