Approval

All quotes from Foyan.

As soon as you accept and approve anything, recognizing it as your own, you are immediately bound hand and foot and cannot move. So even if there are a thousand possibilities, nothing is right once you have recognized, accepted, and approved it as your own.

Buddhism is stupid. The Buddha is an idiot.

It is like making a boat and outfitting it for a long journey to a land of treasures, then as soon as you get started you drive a stake in the ground and tie the boat down, then row with all your might. You may row till the end of time, but you will still be at the shore. You see the boat moving from side to side, and think you are on the move; but actually you haven’t gotten anywhere.

What hell is there to avoid? What stupidity.

It is also like someone turning a millstone, going round and round in circles from morning till night. What a laugh! If someone whose eyes are unclear saw you fixated on recognition and told you it was right, he’d been seen through by someone with clear eyes; on examination, there would be quite a few loose ends.

Studying the Sutras through to the modern commentaries, trying every practice diligently, can not fit into a million lifetimes. What a waste.

To learn the way, first you must find out/the ultimate point;/hearing sound and seeing form are inconceivable./I f you discuss high and low/based on words,/it’s just like before you were enlightened.

Pointless distractions.

There is a road to emptiness;/everyone arrives./Those who arrive then realize/the excellence o f the aim./The mind ground does not grow/useless plants and trees;/naturally the body spontaneously/radiates clear light.

To trust the words of dead folks over direct experience. How ridiculous! What is there to bring beyond birth and death?

Generally speaking, when you go journeying to learn the path to enlightenment, you seek. Do not sit ignorantly, but go to someone to find out the truth with certainty. When this truth is hard to realize, that is called unfinished business. Have you not heard it said that once you realize, then there’s a difference? Yesterday one had breakfast and dinner, today one has breakfast and dinner— is it the same person as before? There’s a difference; it’s not the same. Zhaozhou said to someone, “Have you had breakfast yet?” He said, “ Yes.” Zhaozhou said, “ Go wash the dishes.” This is different.

Meh! Endless pointing. Around and around, no Buddha in any direction. What is this game I've been sold?

Submitted September 09, 2020 at 08:57PM by surupamaerl https://ift.tt/2F748wW