From Dahui's Shobogenzo:
Chan master Yangqi Zhenshu said to a assembly,
All human consciousnesses have one source, provisionally called Buddha. When the physical body comes to an end, this does not perish. Metal may liquefy, simplicity may be lost, but this is always there. In the ocean of essential nature, golden waves rise spontaneously without wind. The vital spirit of mind has no sign, but myriad forms are equally perceived. Those who comprehend these principles reach everywhere without speaking; their work assists mystic influence without exertion. How can you turn away from awareness and instead get mixed up in the toil of the senses, mistakenly imprisoning yourself in the clusters and elements?
Does your work assist mystic influence without exertion?
If one ceased turning away from turning within, does their way become Wu Wei?
Linji, from Dahui's Shobogenzo translated by Cleary:
When I speak of the teaching, what teaching do I expound? I expound the teaching of the mind ground, which can enter into purity, into defilement, into the ordinary, into the holy, into the absolute, into the conventional; and yet is not your absolute or conventional, ordinary or holy. It can give names to all the absolute and the conventional, the ordinary and the holy, but no absolute or convention, nothing ordinary or holy, can affix a name to it.
If you can lay ahold of it, then use it—don’t fiddle around any more. Only then will you accord with the mystic message.
Submitted November 28, 2018 at 03:01AM by Dillon123 https://ift.tt/2PY5jCN
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