Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
362. Master Kaixian Zhi said to a group, Aim and instruction are provisional expressions; Buddhas and patriarchs are imposed terms. Receiving instruction and communicating mind are both vanities; seeking reality and searching for truth get even further off. If you take your self and your own mind to be ultimate, there is necessarily something else and someone else in contrast. At that time a monk asked, “What would be right?” He said,
“’Right’ means there is ‘wrong.’”
“How does one gain entry?”
“When were you ever outside?”
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(Welcome link) ewk link note: Can you imagine someone flipping through Dahui's book, saying "Yup... yup... yup..." to every Case? How about, "Nope.... nope.... nope..." to every Case? Aside from the fact that people sometimes agree or disagree without understanding the necessary axioms that preceded or corollaries that followed, does anybody agree with these Cases? Or is it just the whole world turning it's eyes toward Zen, throwing up it's collective arms, and "Nope.... nope.... nope..."
How about you? I've been posting these Cases from Dahui's collection for sometime now... agree or disagree? Tell me, what will you say I said for myself?
Submitted January 28, 2020 at 12:55PM by ewk https://ift.tt/36sIQRS
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