The Master addressed the assembly: Just as always, every single day when I come out to talk, today too the crows go kaa-kaa, the sparrows, chuu-chuu, and I haven't anything different to say myself. All the same, when you really acknowledge this one word 'unborn', you'll find everything is smoothly managed.
The proof of this is that, while all of you here are turned toward me, intent only on hearing my sermon and wondering, 'What's Bankei going to say?' you aren't trying either to hear or not to hear the cawing of the crows and the chirping of the sparrows out in back. But, even so, once they start to chirp and caw, you recognize and distinguish the crow's kaa-kaa and the sparrows chuu-chuu.
And it's not only for crows and sparrows: everything here, when you perceive it with the Unborn, will be simultaneously distinguished, and you won't overlook even one thing in one hundred or one thousand. In the meanwhile, if a gong rings outside the temple, you know it's a gong, if a drum sounds, you know it's a drum. Your distinguishing everything you see and hear like this, without producing a single thought, is the marvelously illuminating dynamic function, the Buddha Mind that is unborn.
~ Bankei
How's that for direct pointing? It's so direct, that you'll probably need to read it again in case you missed it.
People talk about practice, people talk about observing the mind, detaching from thoughts, all sorts of things. But there is something in you that is always watching, always practicing, always alert.
Instead of using effort to practice anything, why don't you just remain in that which is already practicing perfect Buddhism at every moment? This is what Foyan means when he says Buddhism saves energy.
Submitted March 02, 2022 at 10:11AM by Steadfast_Truth https://ift.tt/SGphqtR
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