Record of Linji; Cleary translation
There are a certain kind of blind shave-pates who eat their fill of food and then go to sit in meditation. They grab hold of wayward thoughts and do not let them go on. Weary of noise, they seek quietude.
These are not Buddhist methods.
The ancestral teacher [Shenhui of Heze] said: "If you fixate your mind and contemplate stillness, hold up your mind for outer awareness and hold in your mind for inner realization, freeze your mind and enter stable concentration, this is all contrived activity."
Everywhere there are [supposed] teachers who cannot tell wrong from right.
When students come to ask them about bodhi and nirvana and the wisdoms of the three bodies of buddha, these blind teachers immediately give them explanations.
If they are rebuked by the students, they give them a beating and say they have no sense of etiquette. But since these [supposed] teachers have no eyes, they should not get mad at other people.
There are [also] phony monks who do not know good from bad, who point to the east and call it the west, who entertain contradictory desires and love inscrutable sayings.
Look and see if they do not bear the telltale marks of false teachers!
They know some enlightenment stories [but not when to use them]. When students do not understand [such random instructions], the pretended teachers soon lose their tempers.
This type are all wild fox spirits and hideous monsters. They are laughed at by good students, who say to them:
"Blind old bald [shavepates], you are confusing everyone in the world!"
Submitted May 08, 2020 at 06:02PM by GuruHunter https://ift.tt/2YITsf5
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