The Real Shobogenzo: Zen Master bait and switch - sitting meditation will get you enlightened "right away"

Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:   

417 .  National Teacher Gushan Yan said to an assembly, "If the spiritually sharp stop as soon as they’re challenged, folks like this are thousands of miles away—what salvation is there for them?  Going ahead and falling back, taking in a ‘how?’ they are like drunks. What breath of patchrobed monks do people like this have? 

This being so, then what about the business in the school of the source?  Here you must be suitable people—it’s really not easy. 

Brethren, I’m not sparing words to tell you it doesn’t depend on memorizing a single letter, and doesn’t need any effort; you don’t need to blink, and don’t need to puff:  sitting massively, you succeed to it right away. 

But tell me, what do you succeed to?"

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(Welcome link) (ewk^who?) note: 

Watch me for the changes;

1. "Stop as soon as they are challenged" - Dharma test flunkers, dharma combat cowards, chokers, chickens
2. "Taking a how like they are drunks" - Sitting meditationers, prayer chanters, rule followers, pew squatters
3. Sitting massively - tbd
4. What do you succeed to? - What do they teach where you come from?

Shazam.

Wait, wait... what?

Submitted May 27, 2020 at 05:31PM by ewk https://ift.tt/2XAdhTJ