No. No. No. No. No! No. No. No. No. No! No. No. No. No. No! No. No. No. No. No!

The Third Patriach, Huineng Sengcan, says:

To this ultimate state no law or description applies.

Huangbo says:

There is just a mysterious tacit understanding and no more.

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Lingyun understood at seeing peach blossoms, Deshan when a paper torch was blown out, Shengguang when kicked in the chest, and Sakyamuni at the appearance of the morning star.

But when it comes to what they saw…

It isn’t Buddhism.

It isn’t Wisdom.

It isn’t Oneness.

It isn’t Mind.

It isn’t Buddha.

It isn’t Things.

We could go on but…Wumen wrote a verse:

Take it away, Wumen:

No. No. No. No. No!

No. No. No. No. No!

No. No. No. No. No!

No. No. No. No. No!

Meditate on THAT.

Edit: Pwn’d.

Submitted September 11, 2021 at 07:52AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/3z3de3E