HongZhi - Beaming Through All Gloom

Beaming Through All Gloom from Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi

HongZhi is back with more encouragement to the direct realization of the dharma's source in the empty kalpa, a description of the self-established return and the transcendent cacophony encountered.

Study the Buddha and research his lineage's subtlety.

You must clarify your heart, dive into the spirit, and silently wander in contemplation, apprehending the dharma's source.

Without pettiness, or weaving hairs to create an obstacle, be magnanimous beyond appearances.

Splendid and lustrous like the waters moistening autumn, noble like the moon overwhelming the darkness, from the beginning just beam through all gloom, profoundly free from stain.

Constantly still and constantly glorious, the stillness is not extinguished by causes, the glory is not marred by shadows.

Vacant, round, and pure, the empty kalpa will not shift, shake, or obscure [this source].

Able to be serene, and able to know, here you can walk securely.

The jade vessel turns over on its side, at once dispensing energy for you to return, share yourself, and respond to the world.

In this realm are the separate, limited forms, but all are only what the self establishes, arising along with our own four elements.

How could there be an obstruction?

Since [this mind] is entirely without obstruction, there is no difference between that one and me, self and other are not separated by their names.

Sounds and colors crowd in together, carefree and transcendent, directly leaping into each other.

So it is said that mountains and rivers are not separated.

You should enact this like the brightness apparent everywhere.

Another juicy one.

HongZhi exposing how the identity realized is maintained during the return through the recreation of the separate, limited limited forms only consisting of what the self establishes is a golden description of the why behind the what of a Realized One.

Beautiful.

Thanks HongZhi!

Submitted March 19, 2021 at 10:37PM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/390si7M