It is said that awakening beings who practice ultimate wisdom should not grasp any words or depend on the dictates of the teachings... As long as there are verbal formulations, it is all the realm of afflictions and trouble. All verbal teachings remain in the realm of incomplete teaching. The incomplete teaching is a form of transgression. Only the complete teaching is proper practice. But from the view of awakening there is neither proper practice nor transgression, and neither the complete nor the incomplete teachings are admissible... At the point, in the midst of birth one is not obstructed by birth; in death one is not hindered by death... one is free to go or to stay, entering and exiting without difficulty. When one is like that, there is no discussion of stages, of superiority or inferiority. Even down to the body of an ant, everything is a pure and sublime land. It is inconceivable.
Encounter Dialogues and Discourses of Baizhang Huaihai [749-814]
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Wandering Ronin commentary and questions: The mouth is the frontgate of all misfortune. Loose lips sink ships. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Are these all hollow clichés and empty platitudes, or is there something deeper going on? And if it is true as Huangbo Xiyun says, that there are no teachers of Zen, does that mean that there are no students of Zen as well? The teachings from the Zen texts and masters are there among the myriad things, pointing in all directions towards the Way of No Ways. I was not here, I did not say this.
Submitted February 07, 2019 at 08:10PM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2UKOXLZ
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