Lecture Master Liang came to see Mazu. Mazu asked him, "I hear that your lectures on the scriptures and commen taries are quite good. Is this true?"
"Oh, I wouldn't go that far," said Liang.
"And what do you use to lecture?" "I use my mind to lecture."
Mazu said, "The mind is like an actor, and thought like a clown. How can you explain the scriptures?"
Liang replied angrily, "If the mind can't lecture, then I
suppose you'd suggest that nothingness can?"
"In fact, nothing is quite good at lecturing," said Mazu.
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Welcome! ewk comment: Top that!
The issue really is that explaining the scriptures depends on adding conceptualizations on top of conceptualizations. Buddhists believe that Buddha gave them supernaturally divine concepts.
Zen Masters say Zen Master Buddha transmitted nothing but the mind-to-mind transmission.
So we aren't all going to the same place. Not at all.
Submitted March 02, 2022 at 11:50AM by ewk https://ift.tt/VGOARQo
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