During the K'ai-yiian period of T'ang Dynasty (713-742) he (Zen Master Mazu Daoyi) was practicing samadhi at Ch'iian-fa Monastery in Heng-ieh. There he met Venerable Huai-jang, who immediately recognized him as a Dharma-vessel.
Huai-jang asked him, "Why are you sitting in meditation?"
The Master replied, "Because I want to become a Buddha."
Thereupon Huai-jang took a brick and started to polish it in front of the Master's hermitage.
The Master asked him, "Why are you polishing that brick?"
Huaijang replied, "Because I want to make a mirror."
The Master asked, "How can you make a mirror by polishing a brick?"
Huai-jang said, "If I cannot make a mirror by polishing a brick, how can you become a Buddha by sitting in meditation?"
The Master asked, "Then what shall I do?"
Huai-jang asked, "When an ox-carriage stops moving, do you hit the carriage or the ox?"
The Master had no reply.
Huai-jang continued, "Are you practicing to sit in meditation, or practicing to sit like a Buddha? As to sitting in meditation, meditation is neither sitting nor lying. As to sitting like a Buddha, the Buddha has no fixed form. In the non-abiding Dharma, one should neither grasp nor reject. If you try to sit like a Buddha, you are just killing the Buddha. If you attach to the form of sitting, you will never realize the principle."
Upon hearing this the Master felt as if he had tasted ghee. He bowed and asked, "How should one's mind be so that it will accord with the formless samadhi?"
Huai-jang said, "Your study of the teaching of the mind-ground is like planting a seed. My teaching of the essentials of the Dharma is like heaven bestowing rain. Because you have natural affinity, you will perceive the Way."
The Master also asked, "The Way is without form; how can it be perceived?"
Huai-jang said, "The Dharma-eye of the mind-ground can perceive the Way. It is same with the formless samadhi."
The Master asked, "Is that still subject to becoming and decay?"
Huai-jang said, "If you see the Way trough such concepts as becoming and decay, meeting and parting, then you do not truly see the Way. Listen to my verse:
The mind ground contains various seeds,
Which with rain will come to sprout.
The flower of samadhi is formless,
How can it decay or become."
The Master was awakened and his mind became detached.
(Source: Sun-Face Buddha)
Submitted November 14, 2018 at 07:28AM by McNubbitz https://ift.tt/2z7gNcY
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