You should each believe your own mind is Buddha. This mind itself is Buddha. The great teacher Bodhidharma came to China from South India, transmitting the supreme vehicle's teaching of one mind, to get you to wake up. He also cited the Lankavatara Sutra to seal people's mind ground, lest in your confusion you fail to believe for yourself that each of you has the reality of one mind.
So the world is only mind; myriad forms are stamped by a single truth. Whatever form you see, you are seeing mind. Mind is not mind of itself; it is there because of form. Just speak in accord with the time, in fact and in principle, and there will be no hindrance at all.
The mind ground is explained according to the time
And enlightenment too is simply peace;
Free from obstruction, concrete or abstract,
Creation itself does not create
A monk asked, "How does one cultivate the Way?"
The master said, The Way is not in the province of cultivation. If you speak of attainment by cultivation, whatever is developed by cultivation also decays. Thus you are the same as a disciple. But if you say that means no cultivation, you are the same as an ordinary man."
The master said, "Your own nature is originally complete; just do not linger over good and bad things, and you can be called a practitioner of the path. To grasp good and reject bad, contemplate emptiness and enter concentration, is all in the province of contrived effort. If you then seek outwardly, you will become further estranged, increasingly remote.
Just end mental calculation of the world. A single moment of thought is the root of birth and death in the world. Just don't have a thought, and you remove the root of birth and death. Then you gain the supreme treasure of a sovereign of truth.
For countless eons, people's illusions, doubts and distortions, falsehoods, egoism, and pride have combined into one mass. Therefore scripture says this body consists of a conglomeration of elements. When it comes into being, it is only elements becoming active; when it passes away, it is only elements becoming quiescent.
When preceding thought, succeeding thought, and intervening thought do not await each other, passing away into quiescence moment to moment, this is called oceanic concentration. It takes in all things, just as a hundred thousand different streams return alike to the ocean, all to become ocean water.
Maintaining a single flavor while containing all flavors, dwelling in the ocean you merge myriad streams, like someone bathing in the ocean, using all the waters.
Disciples do not know that the mind of sages [originally/already] has no stages or ranks, cause or result, or conceptions of gradation; cultivating causes to realize results on the basis of false ideas, they dwell in empty concentration for tens of thousands of eons. Even though they are already awakened, having awakened they revert to confusion. The enlightening beings look upon this as like the pains of hell, failing to see buddha-nature because of sinking into voidness and stagnating in quiescence.
People of superior faculties awaken as soon as they hear a real teacher's guidance, suddenly realizing the fundamental essence without going through steps, stages, or ranks. Therefore it is said, 'Ordinary people have changeable minds, whereas listeners do not.'
if you do not know how to return to the source, but pursue labels and descriptions, delusive sentiments arise at random, and you initiate all sorts of actions. If you can reflect back for a moment, the whole being is the enlightened mind.
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Morton’s comment: sun face, moon face…it’s not rocket science.
One wonders, then, why there is so much squabbling over the what, why, when, how of zen “practice” when dipping in to any zen text will blow the flagpole down.
Why so many alts and tears and spite and sulking? When will their issues get resolved?!
The alt troll harrassers of this community have a lot of allies and enjoy great support on r/zen …but they can’t do anything about what was recorded in journals centuries before they were even born.
They love to claim pwnage, but the weight of a book page crushes them flat.
I’m off to do my daily meditation.
Submitted May 29, 2022 at 02:34PM by mortonslast https://ift.tt/WLATQ6V
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