The Bodhidarma said:
"Buddha is Sanskrit for what you call aware, miraculously aware. Responding, perceiving, arching your brows, blinking your eyes, moving your hands and feet, it's all your miraculously aware nature. And this nature is the mind. And the mind is the buddha. And the buddha is the path. And the path is zen.36 But the word zen is one that remains a puzzle to both mortals and sages. Seeing your nature is zen. Unless you see your nature, it's not zen. Even if you can explain thousands of sutras and shastras,37 unless you see your own nature yours is the teaching of a mortal, not a buddha. The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word. Someone who sees his nature is a buddha. And since a buddha's body is intrinsically pure and unsullied, and everything he says is an expression of his mind, being basically empty, a buddha can't be found in words or anywhere in the Twelvefold Canon. "
From the book 'The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma'.
Ewk: Zen is the name for the lineage of Bodhidharma. Since the lineage is known, not only known- famous, for quotes, contentiousness, banter, esoteric references, and endlessly, even recursively, self referencing.
I think you've got a plain old case of illiteracy. I prescribe a book: Clearly's translation of the Book of Serenity, written by a Caodong Master, a real Caodong Master.
Go ahead. Flip through it. You'll disabuse yourself of complain like this again. Source
Submitted September 01, 2017 at 01:19AM by theartinwe http://ift.tt/2wm81H9
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