Wednesday 8 March 2023

The Hidden Treasure

雲門大師云。乾坤之內。宇宙之間。中有一寶。祕在形山。拈燈籠向佛殿裏。將三門來燈籠上。

The Great Master Yunmen said, “All across heaven and earth and throughout the entire universe, there is a treasure at the center of it all, hidden, within it’s own body. It raises aloft a lantern toward the Buddha within the Hall and places the three gates onto the top of the lamp.”

Obviously your own mind is the treasury at the center of it--undefiled. Try and describe it in conceptual terms and you're already astray from the 4 statements of Zen.

But "placing the three gates onto the top of the lamp", what's that about?



Submitted March 09, 2023 at 04:04AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/BIGRxi1

No comments:

Post a Comment

Blog Archive