. . .You wield the diamond sword, and wherever you go when you see Buddhas you kill Buddhas, when you see Patriarchs you kill the Patriarchs, when you see saints you kill the saints. This is what is called shedding Buddha's blood and breaking up the community.
There don't have to be many people like this--just find one or a half; that's enough to continue the life of wisdom of Buddhas and Patriarchs. The true lineage of Linji doesn't worry about being wiped out; in truth it did not come in vain.
Therefore an ancient worthy said, "Everyone wears out their straw sandals--just make sure you wear them all the way through."
Isn't this the talk of a great person? How can this be compared to a type of ignoramus today, foggy and flighty, who sports weirdness and occupies a teacher's chair, falsely aggrandizing himself, and takes sayings of the past, judges them arbitrarily, and confuses the younger generation doing hellish deeds?
This is pitiful.
Yingan kicks ass! People who come here and sport the 'illiterate dingbat' routine when asked direct questions and pretend their display constitutes the family tradition of Linji...that's where "read a book" comes in.
"Wearing out of the straw sandals all the way through": How will you go about accomplishing that?
Submitted April 29, 2020 at 08:04AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2zAlDlT
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