Master Longji said to an assembly,
Complete ordinariness is not known to ordinary people; complete sagehood is not understood by sages. If sages understood, they would be ordinary people; if ordinary people knew, they would be sages.
This saying has one principle and two meanings: if people can discern them, undeniably they have some penetration of Buddhism. If you can't discern, don't say you don't wonder.
Dahui remarked, "It is easier to turn stones into gold and jewels than to get people to set aside affirmation and negation."
Longji also said,
Affirming the pillars, you don't see the pillars; negating the pillars, you don't see the pillars. After detachment from affirmation and negation, understand in the midst of affirmation and negation.
Dahui remarked, "Tsk! He's starting all over again!"
Easier to turn stones into gold and jewels is right! What could anyone possibly say that doesn't come with the implication that it's true?
Was he starting all over, or was he not, Dahui?
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Edit: Some more affirmations and denials about affirmation and denial for you, because I can't half-write something:
DON'T SAY WHAT is speaking right now is It; that's not quite right. As soon as there is an affirmation, then there is a denial. That is the reason why it is said, that no verbal expressions correspond to this reality.
- Foyan
Joshu preached to the people. He said: "The moment there is distinction in terms of affirmation or negation, everything gets confused and the mind is led astray. Is there anything you wish to say?"
- Joshu
When being as such, you equally break through all affirmation and negation: as soon as it is as such, then it is not so, immediately changing, round and round. If you do not see through 'this,' as soon as someone sticks you in the eye you'll stare one-eyed, like a slaughtered sheep that hasn't yet died.
The ancients said that it is not good to sink into oblivion; you must be fluid to attain realization. You switch immediately on contact; as soon as it is so, then it's not so - affirmation and negation both shaved away, you naturally turn freely. What is before your eyes is naturally unveiled; sated and snoring, you don't know to reject, you don't know to bite.
- Eye of True Teaching #2
Dazhu said, "If one has seen the essence, one may say 'yes' and one may also say 'no.' Speaking according to usefulness, one does not get stuck in affirmation or negation. As for people who have not seen the essence, if you mention green bamboo they get fixated on green bamboo; and if you mention yellow flowers they get fixated on yellow flowers. Mention the reality body, and they get hung up on the reality body; mention wisdom, and they don't recognize wisdom. So it all becomes argumentation."
- Eye of True Teaching #117
With the unified mind in which knowing and silence are not two, harmonize with the centered course in which emptiness and existence merge together. Not dwelling, having no fixation, do not absorb, do not take in; affirmation and negation gone, subject and object are both obliterated.
- Eye of True Teaching #101 (fuck it's a big book)
When you affirm something as so, that is your own affirmation, not that the thing itself is so. When you deny something as not so, that is your own denial, not that the thing itself is not so.
As long as you are mindless even as you are mindful, this is considered attainment of buddhahood. When you apprehend things directly without creating views, this is called attaining the path. One who, on encountering things, directly apprehends their source, is one whose eye of insight is open.
- Eye of True Teaching #232
Submitted August 23, 2020 at 01:35PM by sje397 https://ift.tt/31mMWeQ
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