You urgently need to discern; it is necessary to know right and wrong. The face is present.

From Dahui's Shobogenzo:

Master Fenyang said,

Those who expound the teaching need to include ten knowledges of same reality. If it doesn’t include ten knowledges of same reality, false and true are not distinguished, black and white are not differentiated, and one cannot be an eye for humans and celestials, determining right and wrong. It would be like a bird trying to fly with broken wings, like trying to shoot an arrow at a target with a broken bowstring. When the bowstring is broken, no shot can hit the target; when its wings are broken, a bird cannot fly. Only when the bowstring is sound and wings are strong is it possible to hit the target and fly in the sky. What are the ten knowledges of same reality? I will point them out for you. The first is the same one substance. Second is the same great matter. Third is total same study. Fourth is the same true knowledge. Fifth is the same universality. Sixth is the same completeness. Seventh is the same gain and loss. Eighth is the same enlivening and killing. Ninth is the same voice calling. Tenth is the same attainment.

With whom is the same attainment of entry? With whom is the voice calling the same? What is the same life-giving and killing? What thing is gained or lost the same? What is completely fulfilled the same? What same universality is it? Who has the same true knowledge? Who can totally study the same? What is the same great matter? What is the same one substance? Is there anyone who can point them out? Those who can point them out don’t begrudge compassion. Those who cannot point them out do not yet have the eye of study. You urgently need to discern; it is necessary to know right and wrong. The face is present. Don’t stand long.

Dahui said, “If old Fenyang did not have the final ‘the face is present,’ he’d have lost. Even so, he still didn’t avoid losing his own descendants. Ha!”

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Potential discussion points:

Anyone willing to show us their face is present and tell us what Dahui found so amusing?

Or, is there anyone willing to expound on the 10 knowledges of same reality?

Submitted November 23, 2018 at 09:41AM by Dillon123 https://ift.tt/2qWQ8Ls