Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching #209: Buddhahood is identical to affliction, affliction is identical to buddhahood.

Zhaozhou said to an assembly,

Brethren, those who come from the South I unload, while those who come from the North I load. This is why it is said, "If you approach a superior person to ask about the Way, you lose the Way; if you approach an inferior person to ask about the Way, you find the Way."

Brethren, when a true person expounds a false doctrine, the false doctrine accordingly becomes true. When a false person expounds a true doctrine, the true doctrine accordingly becomes false. Everywhere else they are hard to see but easy to know; here I am easy to see but hard to know.

[he also said to an assembly]

This matter is like having a brilliant jewel in the palm of your hand: when a foreigner comes, a foreigner is reflected; when a native comes a native is reflected.

I take a blade of grass and use it as the sixteen-foot golden embodiment of Buddha; I take the sixteen-foot golden embodiment and use it as a blade of grass. Buddhahood is identical to affliction, affliction is identical to buddhahood.

Submitted August 22, 2020 at 12:08AM by forgothebeat https://ift.tt/3l62dbZ