Master Foyan said to an assembly, "A thousand talks and myriad explanations are not as good as seeing once in person. It is clear of itself, even without explanation. The allegory of the king's precious sword, the allegory of the blind men groping the elephant, in Chan studies the phenomenon of awakening on being beckoned from across the river, the matter of the crags deep in the mountains where there are no people - these are all to be seen in person; they are not in verbal explanation."
Notes: The allegories of the king's precious sword and the blind men groping the elephant come from the Mahaparinirvana scripture. They both refer to the observation that subjective descriptions are not objective realities.
FBE4K's Toot's (caution: whoever smelt it dealt it):
It seems these words are one shore. It seems this moment free from conceptual residue is the other. I myself can't find a middle ground as it seems that when I am distracted by thoughts the environment around me is unapparent, and when I am taken in by the environment, the thoughts within me are unapparent. In my vanity I struggle to escape this, but where do I expect to end up? Being taken in by both, I am freed from the struggle of being myself.
Sometimes I think I complicate things because I enjoy the sport of a challenge. But it also seems quite simple as seeing the emptiness behind the eyes isn't separate from the myriad things seen before my face. I don't know for certain that I don't know or that I know.
"A thousand talks and myriad explanations are not as good as seeing once in person. It is clear of itself, even without explanation."
What do you take Foyan to mean by this? In your own words if you will.
"the matter of the crags deep in the mountains where there are no people"
Where are there no people? Is there a certain direction this is pointing at?
Submitted September 16, 2020 at 09:17PM by FartBoxerElite4k https://ift.tt/2HaYnyZ
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