(Record of HuangBo; J. Blofeld translation)
Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment.
It is the Nature of the {Bhūtatathatā}.
In it is neither delusion nor right understanding.
It fills the Void everywhere and is intrinsically of the substance of the One Mind.
How, then, can your mind-created objects exist outside the Void?
The Void is fundamentally without spatial dimensions, passions, activities, delusions or right understanding.
You must clearly understand that in it there are no things, no men and no Buddhas; for this Void contains not the smallest hairsbreadth of anything that can be viewed spatially; it depends on nothing and is attached to nothing.
It is all-pervading, spotless beauty; it is the self-existent and uncreated Absolute.
Then how can it even be a matter for discussion that the real Buddha has no mouth and preaches no Dharma, or that real hearing requires no ears, for who could hear it?
Ah, it is a jewel beyond all price!
Greedy students see the jewel of the Buddha laid out before them and reach to grab it; they are all instantly exposed and their hands cut off.
Here, HuangBo is able to lay his hands on it ... not grasping it, he robs thieves of their phony "non-understanding understanding."
Only the true eye can truly appreciate the Buddha's gift.
FoYan:
Sometimes when I question students, they all say they do not know or understand; they just say they eat when hungry and sleep when tired.
What redemption is there in such talk?
You even say you are not cognizant of whether the month is long or short, and do not care whether it is a leap year; who understands this affair of yours?
People love to pay lip service to the "kindness" of the Zen Masters ... parading around with their Zen costumes on, talking about how much they love truth and loathe falsehood ... how much do they really love Zen if they can't appreciate what HuangBo is saying?
If you really want to understand Santa Claus, then you need to be able to show a little appreciation for your presents.
Submitted July 14, 2020 at 07:52PM by GuruHunter https://ift.tt/2Oltnwt
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