• To a Zen Man^(Hey, women, too!)
On the forehead, at the feet, it is necessary to realize here is a great road through the heavens. Without establishing the practice and vows of Samantabhadra or speaking of the active knowledge of Manjusri, hold Vairocana still so that all traces of ordinary or holy disappear-then afterward the great capacity and great function will come into being wherever you may be; on the hundred grasses speaking of the provisional and the true, in the heap of sound and form setting up illumination and function, giving helpful techniques, freely and independently. But if you have a clear-eyed person look at this, it is still only halfway - it is still wearing stocks presenting evidence of your crime.
However, even so, you must know there are methods of offering help and guidance; one is the technique of sitting meditation, the other is the technique of direct pointing. Sitting meditation is the great calm; direct pointing is the great wisdom. Before the empty eon, on the other side of the ancient buddhas, self-enlightenment without a teacher, without any such techniques - this is what Bodhidharma taught, the hidden transmission of personal experience. After the empty eon, there is enlightenment and delusion, there are questions and answers, there are teachers and students; all these are guiding techniques.
The buddhas have come forth, with "merging of inner reality," "barriers of potential," "transcendence," "reintegration," "coming from light, merging in darkness," "sun face Buddha, moon face Buddha," - taking in the hand a talisman that lights the night, wielding the diamond sword with the eye of an adept, using tongs and hammer in accord with the situation, not needing verbal explanations, not needing devices or objectives, those of superior knowledge with sharp faculties penetrate through to direct realization; they can be said to be like the sky covering all, like the earth supporting all; vast and open as empty space, shining in all directions, like sun and moon. An ancient said, "In the community of the fifth patriarch, seven hundred eminent monks all understood Buddhism . There was only workman Lu who didn't understand Buddhism." This is the way of direct pointing; as for the technique of sitting meditation, you are already thoroughly familiar with this and don't need my instruction. As you come with some paper asking for a saying, I scribble this senile confusion.
Awakening on your own without a teacher before the empty eon and being awakened by a teacher after the appearance of the buddhas and patriarchs, that is awakening and being awakened, are both techniques of guidance. All that has been communicated from buddhas to patriarchs, inconceivable liberated activity, is all just the mutual accord of states and words.
Great Master Bodhidharma crossed the sea and crossed the river, sat upright for nine years facing a wall, and returned alone with one shoe-this, too, was in the sphere of accord of words and actions. Eminent, if you want to attain accord, you must cut off the root of birth and death, break up the nest of sage and sainthood, become clean and naked, bare and untrammeled, not relying on anything; only then will you have some realization. Now when I speak this way, is there any accord? Is there none? If you can search it out, don't say I didn't tell you.
Yep, you caught me. Notational zen spam. I do like the two techniques accepted as having function. Having subjectively experienced both, it's not guessing. It's trusting my intuition 😉.
I forgot where I found this, what it is, or why I originally posted it on July 4th, 2019. It, and my lack o'view. Things worth considering by me, now.
Submitted February 02, 2020 at 10:46PM by Lurkersim https://ift.tt/2ScCYHh
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