From Case 162 of Dahui's Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching
Deshan said:
"Don't seek Buddha, for Buddha is a mass-murdering robber who has seduced who knows how many people into the pits of the demons of lust. Do not seek Manjusri or Samantabhadra, for they are bumpkins. What a pity to be a fine upstanding individual, but take someone else's poison and then try to imitate the appearance of a Zen teacher, seeing spirits and seeing ghosts."
"After that you'll go crazy, running around to other houses looking for gypsy women to tell fortunes. You have been slipped "fortunes" by ignorant old baldies who tell you to bow to the ghosts of Patriarchs, the ghosts of Buddhas, the ghost of enlightenment, the ghost of nirvana."
"The little whores who don't understand them ask, 'What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?' The old baldies then hit their meditation benches, pretending that is objective representation; or hold up a fly whisk and say, 'Fine weather, nice rain, good lamps,' using clever words to create arbitrary categories, saying there is a 'mystic path', a 'bird's path', and an 'outreach'."
"If you hold onto explanations like this, that is like putting filth in a precious vessel, like using human waste for incense."
"You are grown adults, just as others are--who should you be afraid of? You spend whole days slurping the snivel and drool of old baldies everywhere, and wind up without conscience and shameless. How miserable! They make you crazy."
W E L C O M E!
After an exciting weekend of "sit down; shut up", "Alan Watts, dude" and "Zen Masters accepted, affirmed, and sang kumbaya with all" who better to set the record straight and introduce everyone to this marvelous community, /r/zen, than Deshan.
Some takeaways from Deshan:
Buddha? Irrelevant weirdo; lusting after him is to be seduced by demons. You then go off chasing ghosts, and prostituting off your phony understandings to other hot-and-bothered Buddhists as Zen.
Bodhisattva's? Absolute idiots. Dumb as door-nails, nothing to offer anyone.
Here's the real kicker....
Taking anyone's words: Buddhas, Patriarch's, Deshan's as the basis for understanding is just burning shit incense and eating other people's boogers.
To new members, how does this contrast with what you came in here expecting; what will you do to address this thousand mile long gap between your faith-based expectations and reality?
To all, what's the essential point of not being seduced by Buddha?
Submitted May 04, 2020 at 08:48AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/3cd0VY1
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