Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
Jian said, “The Chan worthies in the capital city all say that if we want to get understanding of the Way we need to sit and meditate and practice concentration, that no one has ever attained liberation but by means of meditation concentration. What about the teaching you expound?” The patriarch said, “The Way is realized by mind—how could it be in sitting?
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(Welcome link) (ewkwho?) note: You'll notice that sitting meditation worshippers don't link their religion to enlightenment much, do they? In Shunryu Suzuki's famous book about Dogen Buddhism, how often does he talk about enlightenment? Practice, yes, "enlightened action", but where is the sudden enlightenment?
It turns out even a thousand years ago there were frauds selling sitting meditation to people... but for what?
Submitted June 08, 2020 at 10:53PM by ewk https://ift.tt/3f5J1qO
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