Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
If you have no eyes yourself, you go to others, selectively excerpting and copying from books.
Even if you take in the oceanic canon with its billion statements at once, this is all others’ and has nothing to do with your self. This is also called dependent understanding through conceptual learning. This is like jellyfish depending on shrimp for eyes—there’s no independence. It’s also like the blind distinguishing colors based on what other people say, therefore not being able to discern the true characteristics of color.
If you study the scriptures, codes, and treatises, there are already people for that; this is why I always say the scriptures have teachers of scriptures, the codes have teachers of codes, the treatises have teachers of treatises. They are organized, categorized, and classified, and there are already people who transmit and memorize them day and night, at bright windows and by lamplight.
What about Chan masters? Can anyone say? Try to come forth and speak.
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(Welcome link) (ewkwho?) note: Try to come forth and speak. It's tougher than it sounds. People come into this forum, specifically this forum, to try to measure up to it and can't. They can't even open their mouths to give an answer because their nerve deserts them, or they are ashamed of what they know they would say.
Most of this is because of lack of study, or lack of honesty.
We haven't even got to this "Chan masters" business.
What about that?
Submitted May 22, 2020 at 04:16PM by ewk https://ift.tt/2Xn0wMa
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