You shouldn't strain to seek the path; if you seek it, you will lose the path. You need not strain to make things fluid; if you try to make them fluid, things remain as they are. If you neither seek nor try to produce fluidity, the path will merge with things; then what thing is not the path?
Excerpt from Instant Zen. Translated by Thomas Cleary.
Fóyǎn Qīngyuǎn
Chinese exponent of Chan Buddhism during the Northern Song dynasty. 12th Century.
T. O. M's question.
Is Foyan saying that all beings are already walking the path, irrespective of anything that they do?
Or is he speaking within the context that applies to the monks in his audience, who would already have lives so very different from our own?
Submitted May 02, 2021 at 01:48PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/3aUvcw3
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