Sutra: “Good Knowing Advisors, the ability to cultivate the conduct of not dwelling inwardly or outwardly, of coming and going freely, of casting away the grasping mind, and of unobstructed penetration, is basically no different from The Prajna Sutra.”
Commentary: Inside there is no body and mind, outside there is no world. But this is not dull emptiness. It is not to say, “My body and mind do not exist; the world does not exist!” and then to fall into vacuity. What is spoken of here is non-attachment: nonattachment to the body, to the mind, and to the world. Then you may “come and go freely.” Coming here, going there, coming back to the body and mind, going out into the Dharma Realm, you are free if you are unattached to the coming and the going. If you are attached, you are in bondage. Unattached, you are free with respect to life and death. “If I want to live, I live. If I want to die, I die.” You asked, “Is this suicide?” No. You need simply sit down, enter Dhyana Samadhi, and go. You need not take poison to make sure than you will die. Isn’t this freedom? If it were not freedom, you would not be able to go. How was the Third Patriarch, Seng Ts’an, able to reach up and grasp the limb of a tree and, while hanging there, die? How could he enter Nirvana in this way? He could do this because he was free to live or die, free to come or go. If I wish to live, then I may never die. If I wish to die, I die right now. This is what is meant by “coming and going freely.”
This is what is meant by coming and going freely! Amazing freedom!
P.S. Interesting - Dhyana[Zen] Samadhi as a way of 'going'? Do all masters have this supernormal ability to enter a samadhi and pass on like that? The plot thickens.
Submitted November 13, 2018 at 08:06AM by ZaoPing https://ift.tt/2PpsGFm
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