One sickness is speechless, formless motionlessness in the haunt of the mind-body complex, where you say, “Even if the Buddhas and Zen Patriarchs came forth, I would still just be thus.”...
Next is to give recognition to that which speaks, hears, works, acts, walks, stands, sits, and reclines...Do you know that activity is the root of suffering, sustained by the power of wind?
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[Two kinds of students]
There are also two kinds of benefactors who speak bitterly as an expedient for two kinds of students.
Students of one type make up rationales on their own and express things on their own, advancing and withdrawing, raising their fists and joining their palms, thinking this to be the way of Zen. Benefactors, seeing them this way, speak bitterly to them, saying, “You have misunderstood. Why is your attention so fixated when there is really no problem?”...
Another type of student says, “I do not understand, I do not know. Why? Because I am not tuned in at all.” Therefore benefactors, seeing people thus, tell them, “There is nothing the matter with you; why do you seek to understand and tune in?”...
If both the former and latter types of students hear benefactors speaking like this, and are able to turn their attention around and study through experience, they will inevitably attain clarification. If they just say they don’t understand, they are creating their own stagnation...
Fortunately, you are in its very midst; if you go on saying you do not understand and seek to tune in to it, when will you ever be done?
Foyan My emphasis
One commenter says all is fine; no need to study; throw out the book. Another finds a new way to say they are doing what makes them happy. One will explain and become belligerent when they are challenged. Another will say they never get what they want.
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Submitted August 26, 2020 at 06:56PM by surupamaerl https://ift.tt/3hum3vq
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