C.1.6. If Buddha is contemplated as having characteristics of clear-pureness and bright-enlightenment and unfettered-liberation, while sentient beings are contemplated as having characteristics of murky-filthiness and dull-ignorance and birth-and-death, those making such interpretations, even through kalpas as many as sand in the [Ganges] river, will still not attain to bodhi because of attachment to characteristics.
B.1.3.(continued). If you look upon the Buddha as presenting a pure, bright or Enlightened appearance, or upon sentient beings as presenting a foul, dark or mortal-seeming appearance, these conceptions resulting from attachment to form will keep you from supreme knowledge, even after the passing of as many aeons as there are sands in the Ganges.
TC. ...if you contemplate Buddhas as characterized by purity, light, and liberation, and look upon living beings as characterized by pollution, darkness, and birth and death, those who entertain this understanding will never attain enlightenment, even in countless eons, because they are fixated on descriptions.
LT. If one thinks that the Buddha is clean, bright and liberated and that sentient beings are dirty, dark and entangled in samsára, and, further, if one also uses this view to practice, then even though one perseveres through kalpas as numerous as the sand grains of the Ganges, one will not arrive at Bodhi.
DT. When you take Buddha for a form of purity, light, and emancipation and sentient beings for a form of defilement, darkness, and transmigration, you will never have the occasion however long [your striving may go on] for attaining enlightenment; for so long as you adhere to this way of understanding, you are attached to form. And in this One Mind there is not a form of particularity to lay your hand on.
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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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I'd slam Lok To, Blofeld, and Cleary together; practice that is fixated on descriptions cannot attain supreme knowledge.
It's interesting how these translaters all come together and diverge in subtle ways. I've noticed, reading ahead, that Lok To cuts out lines that appear in all three, and Blofeld adds.
Literally, anyone can add anything to the conversation. Don't be shy.
Submitted April 21, 2021 at 07:25PM by samadhi-sheol https://ift.tt/2RSnxaR
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