In Edo, the Criminal Magistrate is a man named Lord Koide Ozumi. I'm on friendly terms with him, and whenever I'd visit at his mansion, I'd see various criminals led out, confronted by the officers, bound and tied and put to the torture, suffering the most terrible agony. At that moment, these criminals quite forgot their own mischief was to blame and berated the officers, who were in no way at fault, as if it were all their doing.
When actions are a result of conditioning, how is their mischief "their own" doing? No self, but accountability? Not stating that accountability "happens", but assigning blame. Interestingly nonsensical. It's no one's doing.
When it comes to what you all have from your parents innately, there's not a single thing you've got except the Buddha Mind. So take great care not to create delusions and bad habits, which result from selfcenteredness and selfish desires that you do not have innately. It's to illustrate this that I've told you about the criminals. . . .
Except you get more than that from your parents, innately. Brains come into being with certain dispositions, based upon the wiring their genes (parents) provided. Creating delusions? Oh my. Maybe Bankei should have read a few books on neuroscience.
Maybe you guys should spend more time transcending these troglodytes rather than treating them like authority figures. Ask yourself -- why did the Buddha leave no writings, but these Zen teachers, who claim to be such purists, talk endlessly?
Submitted February 11, 2020 at 01:01AM by jj8jj8jj8 https://ift.tt/2OJBT94
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