Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
346. Master Baiyun Duan, teaching a group, cited Yunmen bringing up a verse by Sanping:
“’This very seeing and hearing is not seeing and hearing’
[Baiyun said] —what do you call seeing and hearing?
‘There is no other sound and form to present to you’
[Baiyun said] —what verbal sound and form are there?
‘Here, if you comprehend, there is no issue at all’
[Baiyun said] —what issue is there? ‘Substance and function may be separate or not separate’
[Baiyun said] —speech is substance, substance is speech
(He went on to hold up his staff and say) The staff is substance, the lamps are function—are they separate or not separate? Haven’t you read the statement that omniscient knowledge is pure?” (Baiyun said,) “Everyone, Yunmen can only draw Mt. Omei based on a likeness; I am not this way. ‘This very seeing and hearing is not seeing and hearing; there is no other sound and form to present to you’—eyes are eyes, ears are ears. ‘Herein, if you comprehend, there is no issue at all. Substance and function may be separate or not separate’—four or five hundred rows of flowering willows, two or three thousand music pavilions.”
More on Baiyun from the Lamp or someplace:
One day Yangqi suddenly asked Baiyun, “Under what teacher were you ordained?”
Baiyun said, “Master Chaling You.”
Yangqi said, “I heard that he stumbled while crossing a bridge and attained enlightenment. He then composed an unusual verse. Do you remember it or not?”
Baiyun then recited the verse:
I possess a lustrous pearl
Long locked away by dust and toil.
Now the dust is gone and a light shines forth,
Illuminating myriad blossoms with the mountains and rivers.
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Yangqi suddenly laughed out loud and jumped up. Baiyun was shocked [by this behavior] so much that he hardly slept that night.
Early the next morning Yangqi questioned Baiyun about what had happened the night before. He asked, “Did you witness an exorcism last night?”
Baiyun said, “Yes.”
Yangqi said, “You don’t measure up to it.”
This startled Baiyun. He asked, “What do you mean?”
Yangqi said, “It enjoyed someone’s laughter. You fear someone’s laughter.”
[Upon hearing these words] Baiyun experienced great enlightenment.
Baiyun then served as Yangqi’s attendant for a long period of time. He (later) took leave of Yangqi and traveled to Yuantong Temple where, at the recommendation of [the abbot] Zen master Yuantong Na, he then assumed the abbacy of and taught at Chengtian Temple.201 There his reputation became widely known.
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(Welcome link) Meet ewk link note: "I'm not this way..." so you say. Pick a side, punk, if you feel lucky. Are sounds really sounds? Is the lamp other than that which it illuminates? Throw down with Yunmen if you think you're all that.
Submitted January 13, 2020 at 08:36AM by ewk https://ift.tt/37YLSON
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