(DaHui's Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching: Vol. 1; T. Cleary)
337
Master Jingshan Yin was asked by a monk:
“How is it when shutting down to be like ashes?”
He said:
“This is still the work of people at the time.”
The monk asked:
“What about after it’s done?”
The master said:
“The plowman’s field is not seeded.”
The monk asked:
“What about the ultimate end?”
The master said:
“When the grain is ripe, not managing the field.”
338
Master Yangqi said to an assembly:
"Snow, snow everywhere, shining bright, white and pure.
The Yellow River freezes shut, stopping the slightest flow.
In the light of the blazing sun it must burst out.
Must burst out, chewing thorns atop the head of the three-faced spirit king, bleeding under the feet of the thunderbolt bearer."
He also said:
"Treading on a balance beam, it is hard as iron.
When a mute has a dream, who will he tell?
On the peak of the polar mountain, waves flood the sky;
At the bottom of the ocean, one meets the heat of fire."
339
Venerable Parshva asked a boy:
“Where do you come from?”
The boy said:
“My mind does not go.”
The patriarch said:
“Where do you dwell?”
The boy said:
“My mind does not stay.”
The patriarch said:
“Are you unsettled?”
The boy said:
“So are the Buddhas.”
The patriarch said:
“You’re not the Buddhas.”
The boy said:
“The Buddhas too are not.”
DaYu Zhi said:
“Each question of the ancestral teacher, and each answer of the boy, all lacked understanding. Now how do you people understand?”
DaHui said: “Even if you can understand now, study for three more lifetimes, sixty eons.”
I have a strong intuition that the boy's first two answers in the last case are (or imply) "[Where] mind does not go"; "[Where] mind does not dwell."
Who knows, maybe I'm right?
XD
So many people are caught up with "ultimate understanding", "transmission of mind", "seeing their true nature", etc. but how many will ever be able to understand DaYu's "lack of understanding"?
Submitted April 20, 2021 at 06:40PM by The_Faceless_Face https://ift.tt/3dzkNaQ
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