Investigating liberation as by Huangbo

Someone asks: How can one not fall into steps and levels?

Teacher says: Throughout the day, eat without ever biting on a single grain of rice. Throughout the day, walk without ever stepping on a single patch of land. At all times, be absent of characteristics like that of self and others. When one is not apart from all matters throughout the day yet also not deluded by all sense experience, that one can then be called a person of autonomy, who in every moment and every thought has no seeing of all characteristics. Don’t recognize the three times bounded by before and after. What’s before has no leaving, what’s now has no staying, what’s after has no coming. Sit properly and peacefully; allow the functioning to be without fetter. Only then is this called liberation.

Work hard, work hard. Of the thousand and ten thousand people in this school, only three or five attain. If this matter is not regarded seriously, the day of calamitous suffering awaits. Therefore it is said: Put strength in settling it within this lifetime, for who can undergo the extraneous calamities throughout consecutive kalpas?

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Don’t recognise the three times bounded by before and after. What’s before has no leaving, what’s now has no staying, what’s after has no coming. Sit properly and peacefully; allow the functioning to be without fetter. Only then is this called liberation.

Huangbo is equaling abiding in specific kind of samadhi liberation

Person who is actually liberated does not need to 'not recognize the three times', he simply knows they have no existence, there is no need for a guard there

Sit properly and peacefully; allow the functioning to be without fetter.

this also is being bound, it is not the highest liberation there is no way liberated person will sit without peace or 'improperly', the serenity of fully liberated person is indestructible and so is hes samadhi

The same goes for `functioning without fetter' - there is no way fully liberated person would function with fetter so really all signs point to Huangbo equaling liberation with abiding in one specific kind of samadhi - since the state of samadhi on itself is dependent on conditions and one can gain and lose it there is a need for guards like that

but really liberated person abides in one or another kind of samadhi all the time, effortlessly, without any guard and can not lose it

We [the people of Huang Po sect] just know how to put all mental activity to rest and thus achieve tranquility.

Huangbo apparently thinks that 'liberation' is attaining specific kind of samadhi and working on staying there.

Submitted November 16, 2018 at 06:30AM by ZaoPing https://ift.tt/2PWOqb7