Case 97: The Diamond Cutter Sutra’s Scornful Revilement

POINTER

If you take up one and let two go, you are not yet an adept; even to understand three corners when one is raised still goes against the fundamental essence. Even if you get heaven and earth to change instantly, without rejoinder from the four quarters, thunder rolling and lightning flying, clouds moving and rain rushing, overturning lakes and toppling cliffs, like a pitcher pouring, like a bowl emptying, you have still not raised up a half. Is there anyone who can turn the polar star, who can shift the axis of the earth? To test, I cite this to see.

CASE

The Diamond Cutter scripture says, "If one is scornfully reviled by others, ¹

this person has done wicked acts in previous ages ²

which should bring him down into evil ways, ³

but because of the scorn and vilification by others in the present age, ⁴

the wicked action of former ages⁵ is thereby extinguished."⁶

NOTES

1. It lets out a pathway. And what is wrong with that?

2. Assloads, horseloads.

3. He's already fallen.

4. Paying off the roots has effects that extend to the branches. He can only accept it with forbearance.

5. Where can you seek for it? Planting grain will not produce beans.

6. This is adding another layer of frost upon snow. It's like boiling water melting ice.

NOTES FROM AN 🦉

Like two immortals meeting in battle, the actions that cause scorn, and the scorn itself, do battle without exhaustion. Scorn cannot subdue scornful acts, and scornful acts cannot produce scorn. Where then is the source? In this way you can see your nature.

The Case speaks for itself, but the pointer speaks for us all.

If you take up one and let two go, you are not yet an adept

Clinging to One unable to face the multitude. A person with this sort of heart will never be an adept.

even to understand three corners when one is raised still goes against the fundamental essence.

One and Three in Harmony, don’t mistake this for the truth.

Even if you get heaven and earth to change instantly, without rejoinder from the four quarters, thunder rolling and lightning flying, clouds moving and rain rushing, overturning lakes and toppling cliffs, like a pitcher pouring, like a bowl emptying, you have still not raised up a half

Which half is unraised?

Is there anyone who can turn the polar star, who can shift the axis of the earth?

When I step, Heaven shakes and Earth quakes. Who can pluck the moon from the sky?

Submitted April 23, 2021 at 08:32PM by Owlsdoom https://ift.tt/32JYqci