Everything is the Aim

The 461st case from Dahui’s Treasury,

Master Huanglong Xin said to an assembly,

There are no phenomena outside mind; thus things can be understood. There is no mind outside phenomena; thus mind can be comprehended. Comprehensible, understandable, mind and phenomena fulfill the aim. Fulfill the aim, and everything is the aim; make mind complete, and every state of mind is mindless. Since there is no mind in mind, you go directly to the source. When you find the source, when you manifest a great body, it fills space; and when you manifest a small body, not an atom is established. How is it when no an atom is established? (silence) One drop of ink in two places completes a dragon.

Since there are originally no problems, why wouldn’t Buddha be the compulsive passions? There is no method to their intentions, but people don’t realize the excellence of the aim. Everything is the aim.

Some people like to pretend that since "everything is the aim" that means they can get away with lying, not using the forum for its intended purpose of discussing the Zen record, and just generally not studying Zen while they are here. That's not what the Zen masters are saying at all. Look at all the ways in which Huanglong Xin says there is work to do. "Fulfill the aim", "make mind complete", "when you find the source". If you need to shut down the part of you that learns and grows and asks yourself hard questions, so that you can pretend to be enlightened on the internet, that's just more picking and choosing.

I think Huanglong Xin is very clear here, but what is a drop of ink in two places?

Submitted March 14, 2023 at 04:31PM by astroemi https://ift.tt/9UuYXKR