Patriarch's Hall: Hanging by a thin thread, without purity

Anderl's 祖堂集 Zutang ji, Patriarch's Hall Collection, https://terebess.hu/zen/Zutangji.html

'Those who after me receive this robe, ,2867 their lives will hang by a thin thread...

If you receive my teaching, listen to my gäthä:

The mind-ground contains all seeds

If it rains evenly then all will grow.

Sudden enlightenment flourishes

and the [deluded] feelings come to an end;

And the bodhi fruit is naturally completed. "

After the master had spoken this gäthä he then addressed the assembly, saying: 'This nature is non-dualistic and the mind is also like this. This Way is pure and also without any marks (differentiating characteristics); do not contemplate purity . 2868 and cause the mind to be empty, and cause the mind to be empty, this mind is fundamentally pure.

  

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(Welcome link) (ewk^who?) note: As I recall, contemplating purity is code for sitting meditation. Complete your bodhi fruit today! All your seeds belong to the mind ground.

Submitted July 10, 2020 at 11:54PM by ewk https://ift.tt/38MHwvK