Friday, 24 June 2022

5 Houses of Zen: Hongzhi "got your nose"

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Houses-Shambhala-Dragon-Editions-ebook/dp/B00WT66SIG

Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091–1157)

The Boatman said to Chia-shan, "There should be no traces where you conceal yourself, but do not conceal yourself in the traceless. In thirty years with my teacher, I understood only this."

In the unusual grass on the cold cliff, you accomplish a task even while sitting; under the bright moon and white clouds, you emanate reflections with every step.

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Welcome! ewk comment: "even while sitting" is interesting, now that we know for sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was never any sitting meditation textual tradition in Zen... what task is there always being accomplished?

Do not conceal yourself in tracelessness is a bit of a downer, right? You aren't supposed to be an invisible genie. Fantastic.

Just don't leave tracks.



Submitted June 24, 2022 at 04:11PM by ewk https://ift.tt/aJBwlIu

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