Followers of the Way, don't search for anything in written words. The exertions of your mind will tire it out, you'll gulp cold air and gain nothing.' Better to realize that at every moment all is conditioned and without true birth, to go beyond the bodhisattvas of the Three Vehicle provisional doctrines.
Followers of the Way, there is no Buddha to be gained, and the Three Vehicles, the five natures, the teaching of the perfect and immediate enlightenment are all simply medicines to cure diseases of the moment. None have any true reality. Even if they had, they would still all be mere shams, placards proclaiming superficial matters, so many words lined up, pronouncements of such kind.
Exerpts from the zen teachings of Lin-chi.
Linji was born into a family in Caozhou, which he left at a young age to study Buddhism.
Linji was trained by master Huángbò Xīyùn, but attained kensho while discussing Huángbò's teaching during a conversation with the reclusive monk Dàyú . Linji then returned to Huángbò to continue his training after awakening. In 851 CE, Linji moved to the Linji temple in Hebei, where he took his name, which also became the name for the lineage of his form of Chán Buddhism.
T. O. M's comment.
Is zen just another medicine for the diseases of the moment?
Are my diseases the same as the diseases that ravaged human beings in 9th century China?
If I am healthy of body and mind, then why do I need to take any medicine? Or, do I have the disease of the mind that Sengcan speaks of, the conflict between right and wrong?
Peace.
Submitted September 24, 2020 at 11:51AM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/3hYqcqP
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