From this selection of famous Zen cases.
Thereupon Yen T'ou shouted and said, "Haven't you heard it said that what comes in through the gate is not the family jewels?"
Feng said, "Then what should I do?"
T'ou said, "In the future, if you want to propagate the great teaching, let each point flow out from your own breast, to come out and cover heaven and earth for me."
At these words Hsueh Feng was greatly enlightened. Then he bowed, crying out again and again, "Today on Tortoise Mountain I've finally achieved the Way! Today on Tortoise Mountain I've finally achieved the Way!"
BCR, Case 22, p.146
Mingben says, "If people believe that the mind of the Way is apart from sincerity, apart from honesty, apart from that which is bitter or urgent -- though they may have a hundred thousand devices and strategems, they are just corpses in shackles."
Earlier, someone said that they were a "Therevaden Buddhist" but ran away when it came to them giving an account of their belief system--this is really just another eBuddhist who comes here trying to escape accountability that Yantou demands to carry on the Zen tradition.
Xuefeng's emotional outpouring upon his enlightenment is something no religious device or strategem--what Mingben calls shackles--can achieve. After all, what is the content of his achievement?
Submitted March 07, 2023 at 06:17AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/z5xJZmW
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