I've come across Wumens Warnings and the slight variations in translation seems to change the tone of the warnings. I have settled upon Blythes translation:
01 - To follow the compass and keep to the rule is to tie oneself without a rope.
02 - Doing what you like in every way is heresy and being among the devil's army.
03 - To unify and pacify the mind is quietism and false Zen.
04 - Subjectivity and forgetting the objective world is just falling into a deep hole.
05 - To be absolutely clear about everything and never to allow oneself to be deceived is to wear chains and a cangue.
06 - To think to good and evil is to be in Heaven-and-Hell.
07 - Looking for Buddha, looking for Truth outside oneself is being confined in two iron cakravala.
08 - One who thinks he is enlightened by raising thoughts is just playing with ghosts.
09 - Sitting blankly in Zen practice is the condition of a dead man.
10 - Making progress is an intellectual illusion.
11 - Retrogression is to go against our religion.
12 - Neither to progress nor retrogress is to be merely a dead man breathing.
13 - Tell me now, what are you going to do?
14 - You must make the utmost effort to accomplish your enlightenment in this life, and not to postpone it into eternity, reincarnating throughout the three worlds.
Is the choice splitting hairs? Would you say this is the most accessible translation?
Submitted August 08, 2022 at 01:12PM by Turbulent_Highway_51 https://ift.tt/XfnkDQ1
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