Huangbo on exhausting old karma and removing shit

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Wanling Record

但隨緣消舊業。更莫造新殃。心裏明明。所以舊時見解總須捨卻。淨名云。除去所有。法華云。二十年中常令除糞。秖是除去心中作見解處。又云。蠲除戲論之糞。所以如來藏本自空寂并不停留一法。故經云。諸佛國土亦復皆空。

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Just accord with conditions to exhaust old karma. More importantly, don’t make new disastrous [karma].

Be luminously clear in the mind, so views of former times should all be forsaken.

The Vimalakirti Sutra states: "Remove all existence."

The Lotus Sutra states: "For twenty years, constantly allow the removal of shit, just to rid that where views are made in the mind."

The Lotus Sutra also states: "Eliminate the shit of papañca (mental proliferation), and so the Tathagatagarbha (womb/treasury of the Tathagata) is as itself originally empty and still, stopping and retaining not a single dharma."

Therefore the sutra states: "All Buddha-lands are thus similarly all empty."

Submitted June 16, 2020 at 07:39AM by chintokkong https://ift.tt/3e4eKZu