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?
Now I ask you, how do you explain the logic of not knowing? You hear others say this, so you say it yourselves: but have you ever understood that principle of not knowing?
An ancient said, "Not knowing means nothing is not known, nowhere not reached". This is called unknowing so that you people today may reach that unknown state. This is the realm of the sages -how could it be like the blindness and nonunderstanding that people today call not knowing?
If you go on like this always declaring you don't know and are not concerned, how will you communicate if someone questions you? There might be no one to continue on the road of Zen! It won't do to be like this. Make your choice carefully!
Seems like the confusion between 'not knowing' subjectively and the unknowing that leads to the ultimate is old news.
Foyan calls attention to the actual meaning of unknowing with the ancients pointing to 'that unknown state' that 'is the realm of the sages'.
People who think ignorance is Zen, what do you make of this?
Submitted July 09, 2020 at 06:14AM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/3ecFIh1
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