Source: Empty Cloud: Master Hsu Yun's Discourses and Dharma Words - Translated by Charles Luk
Where does difficulty lie for an old practicer? In his training, when his doubt has become genuinely real, his awareness and contemplation are still linked with the (realm) of birth and death, and lack of awareness and contemplation is (the cause of) his fall into (the realm of) nonexistence. It is already difficult to reach these stages, but there are many who are unable to get beyond them, and are content to stand on the top of a hundred-foot pole without knowing how to take a step forward. Others who, after reaching these stages, are able to achieve in the stillness some wisdom which enables them to understand a few kung-ans left behind by the ancients; they also lay down the doubt, thinking they have attained a thorough awakening, and compose poems and gathas, twinkle their eyes and raise their eyebrows, calling themselves enlightened; they do not know that they are servants of the demon.
Master Hsu Yun (Empty Cloud) says a mouthful, talking about hundred-foot poles, questioning doubt and the kung-ans of the ancients. My question is: Who is the demon?
Submitted April 27, 2021 at 01:17AM by iRdoublethink https://ift.tt/3tV1Hla
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