...trying on a thousand attitudes and ten thousand ways of being. Not one of them ever caught a glimpse of his own shores.
Right now, all the various directions have no special appearance.
The idea that "up to now, every plan is featureless" is very interesting.The "none descried their own shore" gives some direction to this phrase, and that the "thousands of conditions and tens of thousands of forms" elucidates that one.
This is my second read-through, and it's obvious that Mingben's got one big "No" going on (illusory no?), similar to huatou work.
I like to bring up zazen, both because it's contentious and gets people talking, and because it being contentious makes it a great subject to compare worth and what is, to use Mingben's favourite word, 幻 illusory.
The form and conditions that emerge from zazen are inadequate to create a glimpse of one's own shore, according to this passage, but does zazen, as it is envisioned in the epithet of "just sitting," entail a direct manifestation of an outcome of "every plan is featureless"?
Or is this just attachment to a form?
If so, how does the "true knowledge/vision" (to use Foyan's words) of "illusory" circumvent this pitfall, and if it does, how can it be said that zazen can not also do the same?
Submitted May 26, 2022 at 04:35PM by surupamaerl2 https://ift.tt/a0HxBJN
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