C.1.4.A sermon to Pei Xiu
Performing the six paramitas and ten-thousand practices, desirously seeking to become Buddha, this is [falling into] sequential stages. Since beginningless time, there are no Buddhas of sequential stages. Just awaken to the one-mind with not the slightest bit of dharma to be attained, and this is thus the true Buddha.
B.1.2.(continued). To practise the six pāramitās and a myriad similar practices with the intention of becoming a Buddha thereby is to advance by stages, but the Ever-Existent Buddha is not a Buddha of stages. Only awake to the One Mind, and there is nothing whatsoever to be attained. This is the real Buddha.
TC. If you cultivate the six ways of transcendence and ten thousand practices seeking to become a Buddha, this is a step by step process, and there has never been a step by step Buddha. Just realize one mind; there is nothing more to be attained. This is the real Buddha.
LT. The practice of the six paramitas and various other disciplines is known as the gradual method of becoming a Buddha. This gradual method, however, is a secondary idea, and it does not represent the complete path to Perfect Awakening. If one does not understand that one's mind is Buddha, no Dharma can ever be attained.
DT. If you seek Buddhahood by practising the six virtues of perfection and other ten thousand deeds of merit, this is grading [the attainment of Buddhahood]; but since the beginningless past there is no Buddha whose attainment was so graded. When you get an insight into the One Mind you find there that is no particular reality [which you can call Mind]. This unattainability is no other than the true Buddha himself.
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C. Essential Dharma of Mind Transmission. Translated by chintokkong
B. The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind. Translated by John Blofeld
TC. Essentials of the Teaching of Communication of Mind. Translated by Thomas Cleary
LT. The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Huang-po. Translated by Master Lok To
DT. Treatise on the Essentials of the Transmission of Mind. Translated by D.T. Suzuki
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Lok To is interesting here, because he allows for a gradual, step by step process, just that it is not "complete" to do so. I can see how difficult this must be to put into words, because the idea of "completeness" must reasonably be off the mark since it introduces gradations of attainment.
I think Suzuki does a good job of introducing this concept, and chintokkong and Blofeld do well at pretty much just asking us to see clearly and poof, instant Buddha. I like Cleary's best, but asking us to "just realize" introduces the same dualism "completeness" does.
I suppose being "awake" or not can too, as can "getting an insight" or not, but I really appreciate Suzuki's wording when he says '...you find there that is no particular reality [which you can call Mind]."
Not sure how to fix this without having a means to interpret left behind to get stuck on.
Thoughts?
Submitted April 18, 2021 at 02:54PM by turiya-harem https://ift.tt/3dxyZ4d
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