Patriarch's Hall: Not tranquil in deep concentration

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

...the nature which does not have differences is the Real Nature. Dwelling in the ordinary [the Real Nature] does not decrease; being in the holy it does not increase.

Staying in the afflictions it does not get confused and dwelling in deep concentration it is not tranquil.

It neither gets cut off nor is it permanent, it does not come and does not go, it does not exist in the middle, nor on the inside or outside. It is neither produced nor destroyed; the characteristic of Nature is permanent (lit. permanently dwells), is eternal and does not change, it is called the Way.

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(Welcome link) (ewk^who?) note: Couple of interesting things here...

• yet another take on why meditation is not Zen plus a parallel to Zhaozhou's "Buddha is the compulsive passions"
• an allusion to the unchanging nature of the nature which rejects both so-called "virtue enlightenments" and Buddhist impermanence.
• the use of "The Way" here is clearly at odds Taoism

..."being in the holy it does not increase". Think of all the implications of that!

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 08:03PM by ewk https://ift.tt/2VTjgmL