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The names of the holy and the epithets of the ordinary are all empty sounds; exceptional appearances and inferior shapes are all illusory forms. If you want to seek these, how can you not be burdened? But then if you reject them, that too becomes a great affliction. In the end there is no benefit.
Deshan
Whereas those who are vowed to become Bodhisattvas and who are already within the Bodhi of the Three Worlds, neither reject nor grasp at anything. Non-grasping, it were vain to seek them upon any plane; non-rejecting, demons will strive in vain to find them.
Huangbo
Go directly to the source of mind, and there is no knowledge, no attainment; you neither grasp nor reject, so there is no opposition and no cultivation.
National Teacher of Qingliang
So the Lankavatara sutra has Buddha's talks on mind as its source; the method of denial is the method of teaching. Those who seek the teaching should not be seeking anything - there is no separate Buddha outside of mind, no separate mind apart from Buddha. One does not grasp the good or reject the bad; one does not stick to either extreme of purity or defilement. Realizing the intrinsic emptiness of sin, thought after thought cannot be grasped, having no intrinsic essence.
Mazu
From this I came to rest at once; my own treasure is available for use wherever I am. This can be called happiness. There is nothing to grasp, and nothing to reject. I do not see any sign of origin or destruction in anything; I do not see any sign of coming or going in anything. Throughout the worlds in the ten directions, there's not a single atom that's not your own treasury.
Dazhu
Bodhisattvas of the complete all-at-once teaching, for example, enter into the reality realm and manifest bodies in pure lands, weary of the ordinary and delighting in the holy. Such types have not yet forgotten grasping and rejecting, still minding defilement and purity. As for the perceptive understanding of the Chan school, it is not so - it is right here and now, no other time.
Linji
You just trust this teaching of one mind; don't grasp, don't reject - then you should let body and life go here.
Dahui
Would you say that Zen masters reject 'rejecting'? Words! In some ways it's so easy - it's the effort of separating the pure from the impure that causes impurity.
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Submitted June 03, 2022 at 04:48PM by sje397 https://ift.tt/cvfZwlt
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