The shortcomings of Huang po.

Did you just read the title right? Do you want to check it again?

Yes, that's correct, the guy with the username inspired by Huang po's book, is picking holes in Huang po's word's.

Let me elaborate.

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Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.” “Here it is--right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”

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This is one of my favourite Huang po quotes, it's direct, succinct. No nonsense.

Now, contrast the eloquent and direct nature of the above quote, with the passage below, a veritable feast of conceptual carrots on sticks, leading you down the rabbit hole of fantasising about a void that cannot be spoken about, yet Huang clearly gives us just enough glimpse of it, to invite us into his very own "bring your own concept" party..

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Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment. It is the Nature of the Bhutatathata. In it is neither delusion nor right understanding. It fills the Void everywhere and is intrinsically of the substance of the One Mind. How, then, can your mind-created objects exist outside the Void? The Void is fundamentally without spacial dimensions, passions, activities, delusions or right understanding. You must clearly understand that in it there are no things, no men and no Buddhas; for this Void contains not the smallest hairsbreadth of anything that can be viewed spacially; it depends on nothing and is attached to nothing. It is all-pervading, spotless beauty; it is the self-existent and uncreated Absolute. Then how can it even be a matter for discussion that the REAL Buddha has no mouth and preaches no Dharma, or that REAL hearing requires no ears, for who could hear it? Ah, it is a jewel beyond all price!

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Is there any such thing as your "true nature"

Maybe Linji should have gave this old geezer a slap halfway through this clap trap to halt his poo talk..

Submitted February 13, 2022 at 12:04PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/kHcmhAI