From John Blofeld's introduction to his translation of Huángbò’s Ch’uan-hsin Fa-yao, a.k.a.: The Zen Teachings of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind:
I present to you the master of Feels over Reals:
Huang Po, in his more nearly everyday language, is clearly describing the same experience as [the great mystics of the world] and I assume that Gautama Buddha's mystical Enlightenment beneath the Bo Tree did not differ from theirs.
You assume?
Could one suppose otherwise, one would have to accept several forms of absolute truth! Or else one would be driven to believe that some or all of these Masters were lost in clouds of self-deception.
There we go, John. Now it sounds like you're on to something! Tell me more of this self-deception!
So, however slender the evidence for Zen's claim to have been founded by Gautana Buddha himself, I do not for one moment doubt that Huang Po was expressing the same experience of Eternal Truth which Gautama Buddha and others...”
Oh. RIP.
Submitted November 20, 2018 at 12:17PM by w_v https://ift.tt/2TtJBER
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