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Zen Masters after Wumen:
Hengchuan (1222-1289)
Gulin (1262-1329)
Zhuxin (1292-1348)
Daian (1347-1403)
The ox comes pure: we don't apply the whip.
The flat plain is boundless, the grass grows lush. At ease, sitting astride him backward, riding out the gate. A single note from the horizontal flute, so high it pierces heaven.
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µ Yo͞ok Welcome! Meet me My comment: Daian is offering yet another repudiation of the Buddhist 10 Bulls that are so often used to mischaracterize Zen (and endorse Zazen Dogenism).
Translator's notes:
The ox represents the Buddha-Mind. Carried along by the power of the Buddha-Mind, facing backward into the realm of conventional reality, the enlightened ones ride out the gate to do the work of bodhisattvas.
The flat plain represents the phenomenal world as it appears to the Equality Wisdom of the enlightened: the grass grows lush when the inherent equality of all things is realized, so that the phenomenal world becomes an arena of enlightened action.
A single note from the flute represents the expression of the enlightening teaching.
You don't tame the ox.
Submitted February 10, 2023 at 05:06AM by ewk https://ift.tt/RG3zJNT
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