Tiantong addressed the monks, saying:
“Thoughts in the mind are confused and scattered. How can they be controlled? In the story about Zhaozhou and whether or not a dog has buddha nature, there is an iron broom named ‘[No.]’ If you use it to sweep thoughts, they just become more numerous. Then you frantically sweep harder, trying to get rid of even more thoughts. Day and night you sweep with all your might, furiously working away. All of a sudden, the broom breaks into vast emptiness, and you instantly penetrate the myriad differences and thousand variations of the universe.”
Buddhahood doesn't arise out of purification rituals; no secret sacred meditation practice from Tiantong here, there, or, well, anywhere...
The practice of sweeping thoughts away that Dogen Buddhists would come to fraudulently adopt is irreverently dismissed; despite the clock being ticking in the West for 60 odd-years Dogenite missionaries never got around to translating their teacher's supposed teacher's texts...
How about trading that prayer cushion for an iron broom?
PS:Does a dog have Buddha nature?
Submitted August 18, 2020 at 07:23AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/347SlIz
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