Zen teachers lead astray younger generations of students with koans and other constricting verbal complications. The harm they do extends to students far into the future. The sad truth is that for the past three hundred years both teachers and students have mistaken these verbal complications as fixed and unchanging and have regarded them as fundamental to their true selves.
They're all of them the same. They pass their lives deceiving both themselves and others.
The teachers of the past who were endowed with the Dharma eye acted directly, without relying on Zen stories or koans. They made their students achieve the effortless freedom of marvelous activity through brisk and vital means.
~ Bankei
Submitted March 15, 2022 at 12:09AM by Steadfast_Truth https://ift.tt/9GTzhXI
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