Huangbo Xiyun: If you could prevent all conceptual movements of thought and still your thinking-processes, naturally there would be no error left in you.

Question: At this very moment, all sorts of erroneous thoughts are constantly flowing through our minds. How can you speak of our having none?

Huangbo: Error has no substance; it is entirely the product of your own thinking. If you know that Mind is the Buddha and that Mind is fundamentally without error, whenever thoughts arise, you will be fully convinced that they are responsible for errors. If you could prevent all conceptual movements of thought and still your thinking-processes, naturally there would be no error left in you. Therefore is it said: 'When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.'

Huangbo Xiyun[died 850?] On the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld, 1958

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Commentary: If you happen to see error in yourself, then you'll see error across the world. If the buddha mind is divided into this and that, then what happens to the buddha mind? Furthermore, what is there before errors even have a chance to come up?

Submitted January 17, 2020 at 10:02PM by _WanderingRonin_ https://ift.tt/2Rppzvi