How about when they say the sound of the rain has given you a sermon? Is that correct? I do not agree; the sound of the rain is you giving a sermon. But do you understand? Clarify it directly; then what else is there?
There is nothing in my experience that is not true. If there were anything at all untrue, how could I presume to guide others? As for you, obviously there is something not true; that is why you come to someone to find certainty.
Where is your mistake? Fundamentally not understanding [nobody does originally], you then seek understanding. Since you basically do not understand, what are you capable of doing? Look to see where the not understanding comes from. Do you want to know? This non-understanding of yours basically comes from nowhere. Since it comes from nowhere, how could this not understanding be? And when you understand, the nonunderstanding goes nowhere.
If you know that falsehood is fundamentally the path, then there is no falsehood in it. Therefore those who master the path have no attainment. Just do not seek elsewhere, and realise there is no confusion or falsehood; this is called seeing the path. The path is inherently always out in the open. Thus for those who attain the path, there is nothing that is not it.
~ Foyan, Instant Zen
Adding sermons to the rain, creating one's own non-understanding and confusion, taking a shit on the clear plain, being confounded by sin that you can't bring forward and show -- what's the big deal not knowing, not understanding?
The path is inherently out in the open. Inherently. Why not just let it be rain?
When you understand, the non-understanding goes nowhere.
Submitted February 06, 2019 at 09:46AM by NorthStarIV http://bit.ly/2DfrJX2
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