Four types of environment without characteristics

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Someone asked, "What do you mean by four types of environment without characteristics?"

The Master said,

"If your mind entertains a moment of doubt, it becomes obstructed by the element earth.

If your mind entertains a moment of craving, it becomes drowned in the element water.

If your mind entertains a moment of anger, it is seared by the element fire.

If your mind entertains a moment of delight, it is tossed about by the element air.

If you can understand that this is so, however, you will not be swayed by the environment but can utilize the elements wherever you may be.

You can pop up in the east and vanish in the west, pop up in the south and vanish in the north, pop up in the middle and vanish in the borderland, pop up in the borderland and vanish in the middle. You can walk on water as though it were earth, walk on earth as though it were water. How can you do this? Because you understand that the four great elements are mere dreams or phantoms.

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"Followers of the Way, you who are here now listening to the Dharma are not the four great elements in you, but something that can make use of the four great elements in you. If you can just see it in this way, then you will be free to go or stay.

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"The way I see it, one shouldn't be averse to anything.

Suppose you yearn to be a sage. Sage is just a word, sage.

There are some types of students who go off to Mount Wu-tai looking for Manjushri. They're wrong from the very start! Manjushri isn't on Mount Wu-t'ai.

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Would you like to get to know Manjushri? You here in front of my eyes, carrying out your activities, from first to last never changing, wherever you go never doubting—this is the living Manjushri!

"Your mind that each moment shines with the light of nondiscrimination—wherever it may be, this is the true Samantabhadra.

Your mind that each moment is capable of freeing itself from its shackles, everywhere emancipated— this is the method of meditating on Kuan-yin.

These three act as host and companion to one another, all three appearing at the same time when they appear, one in three, three in one. Only when you have understood all this will you be ready to read the scriptural teachings."

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- The Zen Teachings of Lin-Chi (Linji) #16

(Thanks to the zenmarrow website)

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This came about when I searched ‘anger.’

There’s been some flames in my life recently.

Not many.

Slightly burned some dear relatives.

Not much

and all is good.

Hope you’re all good.

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There’s so much fruit in the quoted text. Lots to point to and say “there’s a pointer.”

I’ll pick one:

Your mind that each moment is capable of freeing itself from its shackles, everywhere emancipated— this is the method of meditating on Kuan-yin.

Kuan-yin. The bodhisattva of compassion.

Emancipation. Free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberation.

Now don’t fake anything.

Don’t say your “pwns” are compassions, if you don’t mean it.

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Pick a fruit, a pointer you see in the above text. Let’s type some words to each other about it.

Submitted February 10, 2022 at 03:13AM by UExis https://ift.tt/g4FuJTj