Sayings and Doings of Pai-chang (Baizhang) #23: 23
In Mahayana, maha means "great" and yana means "vehicle." If you hold fast to your own inherent knowing and awareness, you too will become a naturalist heretic. Do not remain in your immediate mirror awareness, but do not seek enlightenment elsewhere. If you still seek elsewhere in some special way, you subordinate yourself to the heretics who believe in causality. The first patriarch in this country, Bodhidharma said, "If the mind affirms something, it must deny something too." If you value a single thing, you are deluded by that thing; esteem anything and you are confused by it. Believe, and you are deluded by belief; disbelief still amounts to repudiation. Do not value, do not devalue; do not believe, do not disbelieve.
T. O. M.s bit.
I did a search on zen marrow, for the word "aversion", as I've got to goto work shortly, and am feeling a little averse to doing so on a Saturday.
This little beauty is from a larger segment that came up, containing the search word. It has nothing to do with aversion, but I am starting to enjoy this Pai-chang fella.
So, here's the little snippet, for your edification.
It seems that a simple zen marrow search has turned my Saturday morning aversion, into a catchy one liner for me to ponder, while I graft.
"Esteem anything and you are confused by it"
Submitted April 24, 2021 at 12:08PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/2QXhMrG
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