Huangbo:
23 Q; IF I follow this Way, and refrain from intellectual processes and conceptual thinking, shall I be certain of attaining the goal?
A: Such non-intellection IS following the Way! Why this talk of attaining and not attaining? The matter is thus- by thinking of something you create an entity and by thinking of nothing you create another. Let such erroneous thinking perish utterly, and then nothing will remain for you to go seeking!
Dongshan:
Dongshan, Record of Tung-shan, Powell trans.
After Chin-shan had been doing sitting meditation together with Yentou and Xuefeng, the Master [Dongshan] brought them tea. However, Chin-shan had closed his eyes.
"Where did you go?" asked the Master.
"I entered samadhi," said Chin-shan.
"Samadhi has no entrance. Where did you enter from?" asked the Master.
Wumen:
春有百花秋有月 The spring flowers, the autumn moon;
夏有涼風冬有雪 Summer breezes, winter snow.
若無閑事挂心頭 If useless things do not clutter your mind,
更是人間好時節 You have the best days of your life.
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(Welcome link) (ewkwho?) note: It isn't just that we hear "sudden" from Zen Masters all the time... it isn't just that we have dozens of Cases about sudden enlightenments (and no gradual Cases)... it's that Zen Masters go out of their way to reject any means to enlightenment, any practice of refinement, any structure which could be called "gradual".
The idea of gradual involves progress... Zen Masters reject progress as well.
People new to Zen often make the mistake of thinking that Zen must be gradual because some people take so long to get enlightened... but that's like saying that building skyscrapers takes a long time because it depends on developing a civilization with metallurgy.
Submitted October 02, 2020 at 05:43PM by ewk https://ift.tt/33lXID9
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