Directly Transmitting the Hannya-Essence Dharma of Zen in an Eccentric, Idiosyncratic & Unsettling Way
Friday, December 19, 2014
Former Worthies Gather at the Mount Shuang-feng and Each Talks of the Dark Principle
Monk Parsva says: "The teachings of the canon are to be taken as commentary on the mind ground. Sit silently in empty fusion."
Asvaghosa Bodhisattva says: "Mind is the same as space. Space is no mind. This mind is also that way."
Dhyana Master Ch'ao says: "The correct and the incorrect are equally usable."
Dhyana Master Buddha says: "The extreme principle is wordless. The sagely mind is unimpeded."
Reverend K'o says: "Correct mindfulness is uninterrupted and intrinsically pure."
Superior Man Yu says: "Realize the real and lose objects. Quiet anxieties and have no thought."
Master Min says: "When mind is pure without anxieties, Dharma will spontaneously appear."
Dhyana Master Neng says: "The mind range is sameness, uniformity, and without admixture."
Dhyana Master Hsien says: "Correct thoughts so that they do not arise. Concentration and insight are to be used equally."
Master Tao says: "Stimulating thoughts is bondage. No thought is release."
Dhyana Master Tang says: "Empty deception does not exist, yet it is real. But it is still not the locus in which to rest mind." Also: "When one enters meditation, one corrects thoughts and objects. When one exits from meditation, one examines illusions and reflections."
Dhyana Master Hsiu says: "In the pure locus gaze at purity."
(translated by Jeffrey Broughton, The Bodhidharma Anthology)
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