CASE. 24 FUKETSU'S SILENCE AND WORDS
A monk asked Fuketsu, "Without words or without silence transgressing, how can one be unmistakably one with the universe?"
Fuketsu said, "I often think of March in Konan (Southern China). The birds sing among hundreds of flagrant flowers."
Mumon's Comments:
Fuketsu's mind was quick as lightning, snatching the road and walking on it. Regrettably Fuketsu was not able to sit on the words of the "ancestors." If anyone should penetrate into this, he would be absolutely free. Without words, without phrases, now say what Zen is.
Fuketsu did not say such a fine phrase, Without uttering words, he already let it be known. If Fuketsu had become talkative, You do not know what to do.
Windrakes little teapot: I cannot help but miss here, walking back to my room nursing my wounds I pray someone forces my hand. We give our power away friends! Even if you huff and puff and blow your house down you miss! What now? Somebody strike a gong!
I will illicit the help of bankei, since it is Bankei month:
[ excerpts from BANKEI ZEN Translations from the Record ofBankei by PETER HASKEL ]
'No matter what,' they tell them, 'you've got to rouse a ball of doubt!' They don't teach, 'Abide in the Unborn Buddha Mind!' [but instead] cause people without any ball of doubt to saddle themselves with one, making them exchange the Buddha Mind for a ball of doubt. A mistaken business, isn't it!"
No doubt!? AAAAHHHHHHH thems fightening words, I cannot tolerate this slander to my good name!
The original face
"What's called one's 'original face'11 is also none other than the Unborn Buddha Mind. What you have from your parents innately is the Unborn Buddha Mind alone—there's nothing else you've got innately. This is an expression left behind by a master of old in his attempt to make people realize the fact that the Unborn Buddha Mind is none other than one's original face. Even what we call 'father and mother' are names of traces that have already arisen. The man who has conclusively realized the Buddha Mind abides at the source of father and mother, and that's why we speak of [that which exists] 'before father and mother were born.' This 'before they were born' is none other than the Unborn; so the Buddha Mind is the same as your original face. . . ."
oh, clawing at my own entrails it seems! But what exactly is going on here Bankei!?
Let it be
"The reason people misunderstand the difference between thoughts and delusions is that everyone imagines thoughts all exist at the bottom and arise from there; but originally there's no actual substance at the 'bottom' from which thoughts arise. Instead, you retain the things you see and hear, and from time to time, in response to circumstances, the impressions created by these experiences are reflected back to you in precise detail. So when they're reflected, just let them be, and refrain from attaching to them. Even if evil thoughts come up, just let them come up, don't involve yourself with them, and they can't help but stop. Isn't this just the same as if they didn't arise? That way, there won't be any evil thoughts for you to drive out forcefully, or any remorse about having had them. "Because the Buddha Mind is marvelously illuminating, mental impressions from the past are reflected, and you make the mistake of labeling as 'delusions' things that aren't delusions at all. Delusions means the anguish of thought feeding on thought. What foolishness it is to create the anguish of delusion by changing the precious Buddha Mind, pondering over this and that, mulling over things of no worth! If there were anyone who actually succeeded at something by pondering it all the way through, it might be all right to do things that way; but I've never heard of anyone who, in the end, was able to accomplish anything like this! So, pondering over things is useless, isn't it? It's utterly useless! The main thing is always to be careful not to stir up thoughts and change the Unborn Buddha Mind for a fighting demon, a hell-dweller, a hungry ghost, a beast, and the like. If you do, you won't have another chance to be born a human, not in ten thousand or even one hundred thousand kalpas!"
Oh... Tea?
Submitted November 15, 2018 at 11:16AM by windDrakeHex https://ift.tt/2z8XeRC
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