From the Sudden Enlightenment Treatise
Question: What is the mind of people who are sages?
Answer: Not arousing a thought, not seeing a thing - this is the mind of the sages.
Question: Chan Master, have you attained the mind of the sages?
Answer: I have no attainment.
Question: If you have no attainment, how do you have knowledge?
Answer: Right now I have neither attainment nor knowledge. Thus the sutra says: "He has no knowledge and no attainment. By having no attainment, he is a bodhisattva."
Question: Ultimately to whom does this truth belong?
Answer: It belongs to nothing at all. If it belonged to anything, this would be [more] revolving in birth and death. Since there is nothing to which it belongs, ultimately it abides forever.
essentialsalts[note](www.zombo.com) - Don’t put your faith in what you borrow.
Who is it that’s not arousing thoughts, not seeing a thing? Show of hands?
Submitted November 05, 2018 at 04:47AM by essentialsalts https://ift.tt/2PKsJek
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