Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching 521
Master Guishan said to an assembly,
The mind of people of the Way is simple and direct, without falsehood, without opposition, without inclination, without deceptive mental activity. At all times seeing and hearing are normal. There are no further details. Also one does not shut the eyes or close the ears - as long as feelings do not stick to things, that will do. The sages since time immemorial have just spoken of the problems of impurity; if you don't have so much false consciousness, subjective views and conceptual habits, you are clear and calm as autumn waters, pure, without contrivance, tranquil, free from obstruction. That is called a Wayfarer, and also called someone with no issues.
Guishan was a Zen Master of the T'ang dynasty, around the 800 A. D. Period.
He was the successor to Baizhang.
T. O. M'S bit.
This is interesting..
Guishan says, and I quote.. " The sages since time immemorial have just spoken of the problems of impurity"
He then goes on to say, that without conceptual habits and subjective views you are clear and calm.
This poses the problem of its opposite, the problem of impurity, which one can only assume are conceptual habits and subjective views, which make a person unclear and impure..
I'd like to say that being free from obstruction is not having no concepts, because concepts will come and go, concepts are the clouds in the clear blue sky of the mind..
However, the blue sky is not stained by the clouds, just like the mind is not stained by conceptual thought that comes and goes, as long as we do not mistake the concepts for reality.
This is, in my estimation, the notion of not sticking to things..
Submitted April 29, 2021 at 11:45AM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/3aNSfsp
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