This Doubt is another name for what is most pressing and urgent. Once you acknowledge this pressing and urgent matter of life-and-death as your own, the Doubt will arise of its own accord. If you continue to doubt, then quite naturally the time and conditions will arrive. If you idle away your time without making efforts and merely wait for enlightenment, the day will never come.
疑之一字。切之別名耳。 總是生死心切。便自起疑。疑來疑去。 自然有箇時節。 若泛泛過日。不實用心。待他自 [日 ?]悟。決無此理 [Zongbao 宗寳;1600-1661; Boshan Dharma heir, in X 72, 743b]
When it comes to generating Great Doubt 大疑 few these days can manage to do it which means they never complete the goal of Zen. Maybe they simply don't care or maybe they do care but they want someone to hand them some Great Doubt on a plater. In either case Zen turns into to /r/Zen. It's sad to see so many fucked-up people on this sub deluding themselves and others. A prayer for those here:
Those infected with greed, malice, and stupidity, may the Bodhisattvas manifest for them aging, sickness, and death, causing them to be tamed — 華嚴經
Submitted November 01, 2018 at 06:55PM by Dhammakayaram https://ift.tt/2DhTSzn
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