Jingqing asked Xuansha, “ I have just entered the school; please point out a way in.”
Xuansha said, “ Do you hear the sound of the valley stream?”
Jingqing replied, “ Yes ”
Xuansha said, “ Enter from here.”
Jingqing got the message from this. I ask you, when he heard, what did he hear? Everyone says he heard the sound of the water, but what use is such an interpretation? According to their view, the hearing clearly takes in everything at once, so there is no sound to be found apart from this hearing; everything being a manifestation from one’s subjectivity, it is representation of active consciousness. Some answer that it was not the sound of water he heard, but his self. To this I say, how can the self hear the self? This is what is called recognizing mind, recognizing nature
Buddhism is an easily understood, energy-saving teaching; people strain themselves. Seeing them helpless, the ancients told people to try meditating quietly for a moment. These are good words, but later people did not understand the meaning of the ancients; they went off and sat like lumps with knitted brows and closed eyes, suppressing body and mind, waiting for enlightenment. How stupid! How foolish!
- Foyan (Instant zen, Cleary)
Submitted June 11, 2020 at 02:55AM by mortonslast https://ift.tt/2AV5icf
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