A monk asked Mazu, ”By what understanding can one attain the Way?”
Mazu replied, ”Your own nature is originally complete; just do not linger over good and bad things, and you can be called a practitioner of the Path. To grasp good and reject bad, contemplate emptiness and enter concentration, is all in the province of contrived effort. If you then seeoutwardly, you will become further estranged, increasingly remote.”
Buddhism according to Wikipedia is all about lingering over what the doctrine tells you to linger over. It makes certain types of behaviors good and desirable and “skillful” ; and other things bad and detestable, “unskillful”. People coming here to preach Wikipedia Buddhism haven’t done the work of demonstrably reading Mazu and summarizing aka. a High School Book Report.
It only seems impressive because the bar is so low.
When it comes to Zen, Wikipedia Buddhists claim a commonality but in reality they haven’t given up attaching significance to religious doctrines over directly experiencing Buddha as Mazu relates.
Mazu also says, ”The Mind of the sages basically has no stages or ranks, cause or result, or conceptions of gradation”
Wikipedia Buddhists insist upon the 8-fold Path. Zen Masters don’t.
Submitted May 20, 2023 at 12:25AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/mUafpnY
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