In the past, Dipankara Buddha1 dragged us each together into the conciousness of activity.2
Now, the lantern leaks—light and shadow, lies to people's eyes, so that, in days to come, dry paper takes up the spoils, while there is nowhere a model.
Bah! Before the skull can be brought out, you must get a view inside the nostrils.
Patch-robed monks, disciples—flooding darkness, through kalpas, indistinguishable from through a single thread.
元宵上堂。過去然燈佛。相牽弄業識。現在漏燈盞光影瞞人眼。未來乾紙撚賊贓無處典。咄。髑髏前點破。鼻孔裡看見。衲僧門下黑漫漫。歷劫不分通一線。
(CBETA.T48n2002A_001.0122a12)
- The Lantern Festival marks the end of New Year's celebrations, and, amongst other things, honours one's deceased ancestors. Lanterns are released, each with riddles that children can solve to receive a small gift.
1 lit. Burning Lamp Buddha; predicted the enlightenment of Guatama in a previous eon.
2 When the nascent mind begins to see that, in ignorance, it is being disturbed by the activity of things-in-the-world, conceptualizing its own conciousness, rather than seeing all things as one flavour, equal, after which the other forms of consciousness begin; internalizing awareness of external activity, mental representation of that activity, then discrimination, and continually being pulled along in the karma of that discrimination.
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Another sermon on the Lantern Festival. This one comes earlier then the previous one.
"...dry paper takes up the spoils"—isn't this the issue for so many Redditors?
If you have any questions about what words, or phrases, mean, please ask. All criticism is welcome.
Have a wonderful day.
Submitted July 10, 2022 at 12:51AM by surupamaerl2 https://ift.tt/j9bFRKH
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