I am using the 1994 printing of Urs App's translation; I don't know what additions were made in the 2018 edition but if someone has run through it, I'd appreciate any info.
Urs App himself is pretty thorough and discusses at length about the text he is using, how it specifically isn't a complete translation, and provides lots of additional resources like a map, a table of cases featuring Yunmen, and a biography.
Also he uses pinyin which is a godsend.
If this very matter could simply be found in words -- the three vehicles' twelve divisions of teachings certainly do not lack words, do they? Then why would one speak of a 'transmission outside the scriptural teachings'?
If wisdom were a function of studying interpretations, it would merely be like that of the saints of the ten stages who, though disseminating the Dharma as clouds and raid, were still reprimanded because they perceived their self-nature as if through a veil of gauze. Hence we know that any kind of 'having mind' is as far away as the sky from earth.
Someone asked, "What is the mooing of the clay ox of the snow peak?"
The Master said, "Mountains and rivers are running away!"
And how about the neighing of Yunmen's wooden horse?"
Master Yunmen replied, "Heaven and earth black out."
Though you may accept what I am saying for yourself, you're still in bad shape. You must neither fall for the tricks of others nor simply accept their directives. The instant you see an old monk open his mouth, you tend to stuff those big rocks right into yours, and when you cluster in little groups to discuss [his words], you're exactly like those green flies on shit that struggle back to back to gobble it up! What a shame, brothers!
Hurry up! Hurry up! Time does not wait for any man, and breathing out is no guarantee for breathing in again! Or do you have a spare body and mind to fritter away?
This, is what I got when I searched for 'ten-stages'. The final stage is described as "benefit[ing] all sentient beings with the Law (Dharma), just as a cloud sends down rain impartially on all things."
The ultimate stage of the Bodhisattva's path to enlightenment: light radiating forth from them, getting rid of the most subtle of afflictions, transcending laws of reality, etc.
And, yet, still just gauze covering the eyes.
As for the rest, how will you explain Yunmen's "Wooden Horse"?
Submitted January 10, 2020 at 04:05AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2Fzwr3x
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