Xuansha said,
"The true school of the ancient Buddhas always manifests in response to people, adapting with dignity, shedding light everywhere. . .
Unlike religious teachings or philosophical doctrines, Zen enlightenment manifests understanding according to each situation, not departing from ordinary life. Compare this with "The special transmission outside the teachings"
"This is why the eye of the Way is primary; merge with the fundamental and clarify mind, for this alone is the end.
What is merging with the fundamental and clarifying mind?
It certainly isn't some artificial "state" that arises and vanishes from drug induced hallucinations. The statements say, "You see your nature and become a buddha." There is an immediacy in recognition. Even so, Daming Kuan says, "The perennial matter is not gotten from Buddhas, not sought from patriarchs. The inborn essence of great people is fundamentally naturally real of itself. Orderly in action and repose, going and coming without fixation, it is like a fish in water, surfacing and diving according to its nature, like a bird flying in the sky with no obstruction at all."
"FUNDAMENTALLY REAL OF ITSELF." There isn't a way beyond this that can be gained from any sort of religious practice. Sitting meditation is not the path nor an entry into the path but if you want to know what the Zen path is, pay attention to the original Soto Zen Master Dongshan who says, ""One does not encounter a single person,". BAM. So much for group meditation retreats where people who can't AMA get paid big $$$ to defraud their parishioners about Zen.
"Perceiving things with confused minds, they thereby turn away from the true source, fixated on being or stuck on emptiness."
The statements say Zen is "Not based on the written word" so any set of words you may have encountered are only provisional devices leading you on like leading an ox by its nose ring.
Buddhists making a doctrine of "emptiness" are just stuck on something a Zen Master said once or twice. Accordingly, Kaixian Zhi says, "Buddhas and patriarchs are imposed terms. Receiving instruction and communicating mind are both vanities; seeking reality and searching for truth get even further off. If you take your self and your own mind to be ultimate, there is necessarily something else and someone else in contrast."
Just don't create interpretations of the ultimate.
"Sticking with the facts" is therefore such a controversial "teaching" when it comes to any community where Zen Masters are the subject of conversation.
Submitted March 30, 2023 at 01:14AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/NED8Gv0
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