Zen Mastery

Foyan says:

There is nothing in my experience that is not true. If there were anything at all untrue, how could I presume to tell others, how could I presume to guide others? When I affirm my truth, there is no affirming mind and no affirmed objects; that is why I dare tell people.

Dare.

 

As for you, obviously there is something not true; that is why you come to someone to find certainty, you had found truth already, then when would you go off questioning another?

Hmm.

 

However, here I just point out where you’re right. If you’re not right, I’ll never tell you that you are. When you are right and true, then I’ll agree with you. Only bet on what’s right and true.

Neat style.

 

I see through everyone. If I’ve seen people, I know whether or not they have any enlightenment or any understanding, just as an expert physician recognizes ailments at a glance, discerning the nature of the illness and whether or not it can be remedied. Once who knows all this only after a detailed inquiry into symptoms is a mediocre physician.

Seems arrogant.

 

This is like a story I have quoted on another occasion. Fayan pointed to a hanging screen, whereupon two students went and rolled it up. Fayan said, “One gain, one loss.” People like you, in your state, must not say, “What gain or loss is there?” Some say, “One went to roll up the screen with understanding— this is gain. One went to roll up the screen without understanding—this is loss.” If this were so, how could a remedy be possible?

Now if you have not managed to understand clearly, it is because your enlightenment is not true; like someone ignorant of medicine claiming to be a doctor, you cannot discern when people understand, and you cannot tell when they do not understand— you cannot discern at all whether or not they have any insight. Then how can you help people? How can you teach people? You must examine reality through and through before you can.

Tricky.

 

If you are willing to examine reality through and through, you will not fail to understand. Have you not read how an ancient said, “Just sit there investigating the truth for twenty or thirty years; if you do not attain understanding, cut off my head and make a piss pail out of it.” Seekers sometimes say this is right, but when it comes to investigating reality through and through, they change unstably. It is like watching a horse ridden past a window; in a flash it’s gone.

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"One must be like thirty tons of iron, which cannot be pulled forward or pushed back— only then do you know it’s the real thing. People like you stir the minute you’re shaken by someone; one more push, and you tumble."

-Foyan

 

 

You should be so perfectly clear that you see your three hundred and sixty joints and eighty-four thousand pores open up all at once; inside your body and outside in the physical world, every phenomenon is the original reality—nothing is not It. Only then will you get it.

But professional priests nowadays can only speak after dawdling; if I proceed all at once, they have nothing to cling to and think they have wasted their time. You people had better not waste this time! Since you are already involved, stabilize and awaken your vital spirit in the effort to find out the truth.

Submitted September 22, 2020 at 09:00PM by surupamaerl https://ift.tt/3coC5F6