Where is Shakyamuni, the Buddha?
What? What?
Where is Bodhidharma, Founder o f Zen?
Just there.
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How do you explain the logic of just being there? It’s unavoidably hard to clarify. If you can clarify this, you will finally know that true reality is always there.
Many Zen specialists say, “The mention itself is It.” Then what about when you’re dying, or too sick to speak? It is necessary to penetrate this experientially before you’ll get it.
Have you not read how a seeker asked Deshan, “Where have the ancient sages gone?” Deshan said, “What? What?” Does that mean that “what” is itself the sages?
You people either interpret literally or else fall into conventional echoes of what is said. If you don’t fall into echolike expressions, then you fall into wordlessness and speechlessness.
This reality you actually cannot figure out by conceptual interpretations; if you keep any of that on your mind, it turns into an inclination, alienating you from your self. Even if you try to attain harmony by means of mystic devices and wondrous doctrines, you will certainly be unable to do so. If you do not think at all, though, that won't work either. You must personally experience it before you will attain clear vision with no doubt.
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hookdump's commentary:
Do you fall into wordlessness and speechlessness?
Has you inner work reached the point of flavorlessness?
Have you detached from emotional thoughts, desire, form and formlessness?
Are you submerged in speechless, formless motionlessness?
Have you mistaken Zen "mindlessness" for ordinary witlessness?
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