Hi r/zen! I found this text during my study and have never seen it mentioned around here so I thought I'd share.
The unknown legend of the Triforce has been passed down by the shadow folk through the Zen Record.
If you would seek the sacred triangle, listen well…
The resting place of the sacred triangle, the Sacred Realm, is a mirror that reflects what is in the heart of the one who enters it.
If an evil heart, the Realm will become full of evil; if pure, the Realm will become a paradise.
The Triforce. The sacred triangle. It contains the three pieces.
If the heart of the one who holds the sacred triangle has all three pieces in balance, that one will gain the True Force to govern all.
The sacred triangle is originally one.
But, if that one’s heart is not in balance, the Triforce will separate into three lesser parts:
Wisdom
Time passes, people move... Like a river's flow, it never ends.
An ancient worthy said, "The green bamboos are all the triforce of wisdom; the clusters of yellow flowers are all the triforce of wisdom." Zhong spoke bringing up the Flower Ornament Scripture, which says that the triforce of wisdom pervades the cosmos, appearing everywhere, in front of all living beings, going everywhere in sensitive response to conditions, while always on this seat of enlightenment. He then went on to say that since green bamboo is not outside the cosmos, how could it not be the triforce of wisdom?
In the Scripture of Transcendent Wisdom it is said that because form is boundless, wisdom is also boundless. Since yellow flowers are not beyond form, how are they not wisdom?
Later on someone would ask Dazhu about this, since he does not accept yellow flowers as wisdom. Dazhu said the triforce of wisdom has no form, it takes shape in the forms of the green bamboos. Transcendental wisdom has no knowledge; it displays characteristics in response to the yellow flowers. It is not that transcendent wisdom and the triforce of wisdom are in the yellow flowers and green bamboos.
Hearing this, how will you understand the triforce of wisdom?
Courage
The flow of time is always cruel. Its speeds seem different for each person, but no one can change it.
Yuanwu said if you see your duty but do not act on it, that is lack of courage.
One time Yunmen showed his staff to the assembly and said, "The staff changed into a dragon and swallowed the universe. Mountains, rivers, the great earth—where are they to be found?"
Of this exchange, Xuedou said when people fail they lose their courage and spirit.
Later on, Yuanwu commented on this, reminding people their tempers are like that of kings, it is just that you are far far away. What will you do about being scared?
This matter is not one of winning and losing, but there are insiders and outsiders. Close and far away.
Hearing this, will you dare to hold the triforce of courage?
Power
This is the melody that will draw you into the infinite darkness that absorbs even time...
Once, someone asked Yunmen about how to experience the unique way of subtle power. Yunmen said, "After thirty years!"
Years later, Yuanwu would go on to say say about this piece of the triforce that anyone who is powerful will immediately rest right this moment and abruptly still the myriad entanglements, this passing beyond the stream of birth and death and going far beyond the usual patterns.
Hearing this, can you seize the triforce of Power?
Someone once asked Zhaozhou which piece was the original triforce. He simply said to not leave out any of them.
HuangBo said the triforce has three pieces. By wisdom it is meant the teaching of the omnipresent voidness of the real self-existent nature of everything. By courage is meant the teaching of the underlying universal purity of things. By power is meant the teaching of practices and expedient devices.
Wisdom cannot be sought through speech or hearing or the written word.
Courage and power both respond with appearances suited to particular circumstances.
The real teaching is to forget all three.
Abruptly realizing the unborn, you find the triforce of no price stored within you.
The triforce of no price can never be used up, though you spend it freely to help people you meet. Wisdom, courage, power, and the six medallions of the seven sages are all contained within.
In the heavens and on earth, you alone are the Hero of Time.
Submitted February 25, 2022 at 02:26PM by astroemi https://ift.tt/NZnUyoi
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