“If you do not know how to return to the source, but pursue labels and descriptions, delusive sentiments arise at random, and you initiate all sorts of actions. If you can reflect back for a moment, the whole being is the enlightened mind. “You should individually realize your own mind—don’t memorize my words."
"Even if you can explain countless principles, the mind is still not more; and even if you cannot explain at all, the mind is still not less. What can explain is your mind, and what can’t explain is your mind as well.
“Even if you can project duplicates of your body, radiate light, and manifest eighteen transformations, that is not as good as going back to the dead ashes of self. Having drenched the dead ashes so they have no energy is a metaphor for disciples’ mistaken cultivation of cause and realization of result. Not having drenched the dead ashes, so they have some energy, is a metaphor for enlightening beings’ work on the way maturing unadulterated so that evils do not influence them.
“If you talk about the three treasuries of the Buddha’s provisional teachings, you could talk for countless eons without exhausting them—like links in a chain, they never end. But if you realize the enlightened mind, there is nothing else.”
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ewk note: Nothing else. No wonder so many religious people are afraid of Dahui's teaching of Mazu's teaching of the Buddha's Dharma.
Submitted December 05, 2018 at 05:49AM by ewk https://ift.tt/2AQGazE
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