Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching #660
YunMen asked WoLong, "Do people who understand self still see that there is self?"
WoLong said, "Only when not seeing there is self does one understand self."
YunMen also asked, "What order of operation is what is learned on the long bench?"
WoLong said, "The second order of operation."
YunMen said, "What is the first order of operation?"
WoLong said, "Tying your shoes tightly."
DaHui said: "He rides a brigand's horse to chase a gang of brigands, borrows an old woman's skirt to pay respects to an old woman's age."
Lately, I've been seeing a little bit of this New Age "ego death" shit creeping up in the general conversation.
However you want to define or re-define the word "ego", when you die, only then will it be dead.
Anything that happens before that on some sort of vision quest is just a hallucination that you induced upon yourself.
Zen Masters talk about the mind as uncreated and non-dying. What others mistake for a nihilistic extinction of self, Zen Masters talk about as the revelation of self.
The deluded imaginations that arise from the images of reality cannot compare with the reality of self, itself.
When the candle of knowledge is blown out, your true face is revealed in the dark.
So any "ego" which seeks its own death, proves itself wrong before it even gets started.
Sitting on the long bench and searching in quietude for mind is secondary to strapping on a pair of hemp sandals and setting out to find out who you really are.
But what is DaHui talking about?
Who can find out?
Submitted August 31, 2022 at 05:10AM by -AeonicFire- https://ift.tt/iYqRCuk
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