Before Deshan had met someone, he stuffed his belly full of complications, which flowed in his eighty-four thousand pores and turned into sprites, each emanating countless psychic powers. Then when he met Longtan it was all useless. After that he knew he’d been wrong, and said, “From this day on I won’t doubt what the old masters all over the land say.” Truly, this matter has never been in intellectual knowledge or much learning. And it’s not in clear calm. And it’s not in perpetual sitting without lying down. And it’s not in silent alertness. If you are someone there, you distinguish the tune as soon as the strings vibrate, know it’s autumn when a leaf falls. But if you are not yet able to investigate to the end, you should be like Deshan meeting Longtan; only then can you enter the forge and be worked on with the tongs and hammer.
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So, the top posts of the morning, again, is trolls who purposely fill their OP with bad faith questions, assertions they refuse to show is in any way connected to what Zen Master say, and behaviour that falls somewhere around obtuse and abusive.
Why? Because they want to sell their snake-oil; whether it's "chill out" philosophy or meditation promotion, it's all a mental lobotomy. Zen Masters call it "covering one's ear to steal a bell"; they pick up Zen only so they can sound like Zen. Nothing original.
What does it sound like when your strings are plucked? It doesn't take a lot of Zen study before you notice the songs you've heard before.
What about entering the forge? Dogen says it is already done when you take up his patented brand of prayer meditation. Can anyone show me how any of that BS connects to what Ying-An says?
Submitted April 16, 2021 at 08:42PM by samadhi-sheol https://ift.tt/2QvUVTU
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