Jian said, “The Chan worthies in the capital city all say that if we want to get understanding of the Way we need to sit and meditate and practice concentration, that no one has ever attained liberation but by means of meditation concentration. What about the teaching you expound?” The patriarch [Huineng] said, “The Way is realized by mind—how could it be in sitting? Scripture says, ‘If you see the Realized One as sitting or lying down, you are going on a false path.’ Why? Because there is no whence or whereunto—if there is neither production nor destruction, this is the pure meditation of the realized. The emptiness of all things is the pure sitting of the realized. Ultimately there is no realization, how indeed in sitting!”
...If you want to know the essence of mind, just do not think of any good or bad, and you will naturally gain entry into the pure essence of mind. It is calm, always quiet, with countless wondrous functions.” Having received this teaching, Jian was greatly enlightened.
Submitted February 04, 2023 at 10:01PM by koancomentator https://ift.tt/wpK9tMJ
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