Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
349. Master Zhaozhou said to an assembly, A gold Buddha does not get through a furnace, a wooden Buddhas does not get through fire, a clay Buddha does not get through water. The real Buddha sits within—bodhi, nirvana, suchness, and Buddha-nature are all clothes sticking to the body. This is also called affliction. If you don’t ask, there is no affliction.
Now where is the noumenal ground of reality placed? When one mind is not aroused, myriad things have no fault. You just sit investigating the principle for twenty or thirty years; then if you don’t understand, cut off my head. It’s a waste of effort to grasp dreams, illusions, flowers in the sky. If the mind does not differ, myriad things are one. Since it is not obtained from outside, why cling anymore?
You are like goats randomly putting things in your mouth. I see master Yaoshan said that if anyone posed a question he’d just have them shut their doggish mouth. I too have people shut this doggish mouth. Grasping self is defilement, not grasping self is purity. Like hunting dogs, you just want to eat something. Where is Buddhism? Here, a thousand people, ten thousand people, are all seeking Buddhism—I can’t find even one wayfarer. If you are a disciple of the king of emptiness, don’t make your mind sick—this is most difficult to cure. Before there was the world there was already this nature; when the world disintegrates, this nature won’t disintegrate.
Once you have seen me, you are none other than the master; why seek this outside any further? At precisely such a time, don’t turn your head around and exchange your brain; if you turn your head around and exchange your brain, you’ll lose it.
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(Welcome link) Meet ewk link note: Aside from the fact that there is some catechism stuff going on here (before there was the world there was already this nature")... once you have seen me... well, what's that about?
Submitted January 14, 2020 at 05:55PM by ewk https://ift.tt/3a6OKet
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