"I tell my students and those of you coming regularly here to the temple: '
Be stupid!'
Because you've got the dynamic function of the marvelously illuminating Buddha Mind, even if you get rid of discriminative understanding, you won't be foolish.
So, all of you, from here on, be stupid!
Even if you're stupid, when you're hungry, you'll ask for something to eat, when you're thirsty, you'll ask for some tea;
when it gets warm, you'll put on thin, light clothes, and when it's cold, you'll put on more clothes.
As far as your activities of today are concerned, you're not lacking a thing!
"With people who are clever, there are sure to be a great many shortcomings.
To have transcended those clever people whom all the world holds in great esteem is what's meant by 'stupidity.'
There's really nothing wrong with being a blockhead!
"When people say that someone is a clever fellow, I ask to meet him, and when I do and we have a chance to talk, it looks to me as if people in the world are praising an awful lot of foolishness.
The fact is that those clever people acclaimed by the world are, from the start, deluded by their own cleverness.
They distort the Buddha Mind and obscure its marvelously illuminating [dynamic function], considering other people as of no account, contradicting whatever they say, slighting and insulting them.
Of course, since those they're insulting are also amply endowed with the marvelously illuminating Buddha Mind, they aren't going to let themselves be slighted like that, so they get angry and answer right back, heedlessly pouring forth abuse.
The true man's ideal is to show kindness to those who are foolish and help those who are evil. To be recognized as a good man by the people of the world is precisely what makes being born a human being worthwhile. How can it be any good to earn yourself the reputation of a wicked person?
"So when you go back to your homes and meet your old acquaintances, you should have them wondering about you all: 'How did Bankei teach them Buddhism, anyway? Why, they've come back even more stupid than before they left!'
"What I'm talking about isn't the stupidity of stupidity and understanding. That which transcends stupidity and understanding is what I mean by stupidity!"
Lying will always take cleverness. It involves attempting to weave mazes, mis-directions or puzzles to keep others from getting to know their actual thoughts and feelings.
Liars are ashamed of their true thoughts and feelings, so they pretend to others, and usually to themselves, that they think and feel differently than they do. A mask.
Liars also think everyone else lies equally as much; that is how they try to justify to themselves their behavior. They think anything said must have some hidden agenda underneath to manipulate because that is the realm in which they operate and consider normal reality.
Honesty requires no cleverness, intelligence or brain power. It just spills out, suddenly or gradually spilling to the root of the matter with you; what is directly inside at any given moment.
I am not meaning honesty is bound to spontaneity. That we cannot think or consider how best or most appropriate to composure our words and behavior, given the context, but that such time for consideration is still yet born of the spontaneity; a willful gap between the notes of your own music.
The more you are in touch with the truth of your ordinary mind, the mind as it currently is, the greater your ability to discern when someone is trying to play you and when someone is forthright.
Rest your mind in the activities that naturally come with you. Speak with courage that which satisfies your inner core and sense of truth. What have you got to lose than the petty respect of fools and social climbers?
Submitted November 02, 2018 at 03:36AM by Pikkko https://ift.tt/2zq2Rdc
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