Why Can't People Pass Through?

The 459th case from Dahui’s Treasury,

Master Baiyun Duan said to an assembly,

It is very clearly known that the Way is just this - why can't people pass through? It is just because when they see someone open his mouth they immediately call it verbal expression, and when they see someone keep his mouth shut they immediately call it silence.

He also said,

All activity and talk in all worlds is without exception oneself. So it is said that falling along the way subtly embosoms past aversion. Have you not seen how great master Yunmen said, "Hearing sound, awaken to the Way; seeing form, understand the mind," then raised his hand and said, "Guanyin bodhisattva brings a coin to buy a cake," then lowered his hand and said, "After all it's a bun." And haven't you seen how when I was at Fahua I once pointed out to the assembly, "Chan master Wuye said that if the slightest subjective thought of ordinary and holy is not yet terminated, one cannot avoid entering into a donkey's womb or a horse's belly. Everyone, even if the slightest subjective thought of ordinary and holy is terminated at once, you still won't escape entering into a donkey's womb or a horse's belly. Blind blokes, just look at it this way. Inquire!"

-There is no method to becoming enlightened, and every method that tries to pass itself off as enlightenment is ultimately why people can’t pass through. Being nice is not holy, being aggressive is not making you less holy. But if you can’t let go off your preferences for what makes up "holy," you cannot avoid entering into a donkey’s womb or a horse’s belly.

Disappointed reality is a bun and not a cake? It's still gonna fill you up. Yummy.

Submitted March 08, 2023 at 08:12AM by astroemi https://ift.tt/v948JS5