Someone asked Yunmen, “What was the purpose in [Bodhidharma’s] coming from the West?” The Master said, “The mountains, the rivers, the earth.” 171 The monk insisted, “Is there something beyond that?” The Master said, “There is.” The questioner continued, “What is it?” The Master said, “Old Shakyamuni is staying in India, and Bodhisattva Mañjushrî resides in China.”
The Buddha stays at home while Mañjushrî (bhodisattva of wisdom/prajna) goes out.
Good friends, what are stabilization and insight like? They are like a lamp and its light. If there is a lamp, there is light; without a lamp, there is darkness. The lamp is the body of the light, the light is the function of the lamp. The names may be two, but in essence they are basically one and the same. The phenomena of stabilization and insight are also like this.
-Hui-Neng’s platform sutra
Submitted December 16, 2018 at 11:07PM by Pistaf https://ift.tt/2Qxc7I2
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