“There was a cultivator who once asked the Master “how can one abide in the right dharma?”
The master said “to seek to abide in the right dharma is wrong. why? because the dharma is beyond right and wrong.
The cultivator asked “how can one become a Buddha?”
The master said “there is no need to abandon the mind of a sentient being; just do not defile your self-nature. The [Avatamsaka]sutra says ‘mind, Buddha and sentient beings are not different from each other.
The cultivator asked “If one has this kind of understand is he going to obtain liberation?
The master replied “since originally you are not bound there is no need to seek liberation. The dharma is beyond words and letters; do not seek it in verbal expressions.The dharma is not of past, present and future, you cannot unite with it within the realm of cause and effect. The dharma is transcendental and beyond comparison. The dharmakaaya is without form, and yet it can manifest forms in response to things. liberation is not to be sought outside of this world.”
-Tachu Huihai
-Sun Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-Tsu and the Hung Chou Schoolog Ch’an, M.Poceski.
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Comment: Don’ fret, you needn’t jettison that which cannot possibly be jettisoned.
Submitted August 25, 2020 at 03:38PM by mortonslast https://ift.tt/2D0jhPu
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