Case 162 (Deshan) “ ... This radiant void is unobstructed, free: it is not something you can attain by embellishment. From the Buddha and from the Chan founders, all have transmitted this teaching, whereby they attained liberation; the doctrines of the whole canon just put it in orderly arrangements. You are people of the present time; don’t seek somewhere else. Even if Bodhidharma were to come here, he would just tell you to be without affectations; he would tell you not to be contrived. Dressing, eating, excreting, there is no more ‘birth and death’ to be feared, and no nirvana to be attained, no enlightenment to be realized. You’re just an ordinary individual, without affectations. ...” - Treasury of the True Eye of Teaching Volume 1 (Translated by Thomas Cleary)
Comment:
As it has been said: ‘Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.’
This has been done for all in the nature of our existence. We are already free. Look within. Buddha is a piece of crap, scrape him off on the sidewalk, and stop to talk with Angulimāla while moving down the road.
Submitted September 25, 2020 at 08:02AM by eschox https://ift.tt/3cvaBht
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