Mingben said, "Everything is illusion and is fulfilled by illusion. It isn't something you can replicate or dissect or part from or starve to death. It is not a strength, it is not a discussion. It is only the suchness of things. The pure autumn dew is above all your machinations, you cannot shake it off."
I think I found my nemesis in Mingben...yep...total arch-enemy.
'Above all your machinations' means that any sort of supernatural spiritual practice that you dedicate yourselves to is just cultivating illusion. Meditation worship, LSD mysticism, secret koan answers--all of it is just creating karma according to Huangbo.
Dongshan said that the practice of a novice "should be such that nothing is absent, but if he is conscious of his practice, it is wrong." "Zazen" was a practice invented by someone who was not even a Zen novice but claimed to see with the same eye as Caodong.
How do you understand the pure autumn dew?
Submitted March 10, 2023 at 07:25PM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/4WI58jE
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