The group who were mired in texts argued the toss over right and wrong. At that time there was a meditation teacher, Daoheng, who had previously studied meditation. Among the royal clan at Ye his pupils numbered in the thousands. When he encountered Huike's preaching of the Dharma he thought that in fact it conveyed nothing, regarding it to be the words of Mara (tempter).
... [Daoheng] bribed a lay official to kill Huike illegally/unjustly. From the start, Huike had not the slightest resentment as he came close to death. Daoheng's assembly rejoiced. Consequently, this caused those who realised what lay at the basis of the matter to cease their study of the fruitless and frivolous.
Then the accounts differ on whether Huike was killed, whether the would-be killer killed himself in frustration at the success/failure of the killing, or whether Huike went on to wander around unmolested by the attempt, etc.
This contemporary account of Huike's doings ends, saying:
His Way was ultimately obscureand also profound. Therefore in the end his work/lineage ended and he had no illustrious successors.
Since the beliefs that the meditation cultists and would-be lynchers of the 2P are fundamentally at odds with Zen, the reckoning /r/Zen has brought to their contemporary followers isn't one of moral outrage, but rather pointing out the insurmountable doctrinal incompatibility at the heart of what meditators believe they are doing with what Zen Patriarchs have been saying about it since they came to China.
So, what then is at the basis of the matter of Huike at Yezhou?
Submitted June 30, 2022 at 03:50AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/jnwozty
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