(Record of Linji; Cleary translation) (repost)
I explain the Dharma differently from anyone else.
If {Manjushri} or {Samantabhadra} appear before me in some manifestation to ask about the Dharma, as soon as they open their mouths to ask for instruction, I’ve already sized them up.
I am securely seated.
When you people come to meet with me, I have already sized you all up.
Why is it this way?
Because my [perspective] is different.
Externally I do not seize upon ordinary or holy, and inwardly I do not abide in the [fundamental].
When you see all the way through things, there are no more doubts or deceptions.
The Buddha Dharma is effortless:
Just be without concerns in your ordinary life, as you shit and piss and wear clothes and eat food.
When tired, then lie down.
Fools will laugh at you, but the wise will know.
An ancient said: "Those who make external efforts are all stupid and obstinate. Just [function and be as a] master wherever you are, and where you stand is real."
When objects appear they cannot turn you around. Though the uninterrupted hellish karma of the habit energy of your past is still there, it spontaneously becomes the great ocean of liberation.
These days students in general do not know the Dharma. They are like goats: whatever they encounter, they put in their mouths.
They do not distinguish between the slaves and the free, the guests and the host.
This type enter the Path with twisted minds. Even though they cannot enter places where it’s noisy, they call themselves true leavers of home. Actually they are true conventional worldlings.
As for leavers of home, they must be able to perceive with true understanding in ordinary life.
They distinguish enlightenment and delusion, true and false, ordinary and holy.
If you can make these distinctions, you are called a true leaver of home.
If you cannot tell deluding from enlightening influences, then you have left one home [ordinary life] only to enter another home [of "cultish religious allegiances"]. Then you are called a sentient being creating karma, not a true leaver of home.
Right now there’s something where enlightenment and delusion share the same substance undivided. It’s like water and milk mixed together: the king goose drinks only the milk.
People of the Path with clear eyes will reject both delusion and enlightenment. If you love holy things and hate ordinary things, you float and sink in the sea of birth and death.
Someone asked: “What are enlightenment and delusion?”
Linji said: "A moment when your mind is in doubt is delusion. If you can comprehend that the myriad phenomena are unborn, that [deluded] mind is like an illusory transformation, so that you are everywhere pure, this is enlightenment. So enlightenment and delusion are the two objects, defilement and purity."
“In my view, there are no buddhas and no sentient beings, no ancient and no modern."
"Those who attain, attain without cultivation, without realization, without gain, and without loss, for them there is never anything else but reality."
"Even if there is anything that goes beyond this, I would say that it is like a dream or a magical illusion."
"This is what I am saying."
Submitted July 16, 2020 at 12:15AM by GuruHunter https://ift.tt/3fxZ8OD
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