..續本文上一頁nse of opening into the Tao and opening to other people.
Tonight we”re not going to do any special night sitting for tonight officially. What we”re going to do is invite you to sit for yourselves as so many people have over the years if you wish to sit up. Just sit for yourselves. The leaders will give you instruction about that. I want to emphasize again that this is your matter. This is something that comes out of your own heart and covers the valley and covers the whole continent. It doesn”t come from being anybody else than who you are. You can”t ever drink anybody else”s coffee. You can”t ever have anybody else”s experience or anybody else”s love. It must be your own and start from your own breast.
Thank you very much. Please keep at it.
Some supplementary notes:
Ling-shu JŸ-min, JŸ-min (
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). Teacher. Head of the Ling-shu Monastery (in Shao-chou, Kwangtung (Guangdong) Province. China.). Recommended his head monk, YŸn-men Wen-yen (J. Unmon Bun”en) as his successor in directing the monastery. Active 9th c. China. [see pp. 283 in: Chang Chung-Yuan (Transl. and Ed.). 1969. Original Teachings of Ch”an Buddhism selected from The Transmission of the Lamp. New York: Pantheon Books.]
In the Zen tradition there are two Zen teachers called Tung-shan: 1) Tung-shan Liang-chieh (Jap. Tozan Ryokai) who was the student and dharma successor of Yun-yen T”an-sheng (Jap. Ungan Donjo) and was the co-founder [together with his disciple Ts”ao-shan Pen-chi (Jap. Sozan Honjaku)] of the Soto school of Zen; 2) Tung-shan Shou-chu (Jap. Tozan Shusho), the student and dharma successor of YŸn-men Wen-yen (Jap. Ummon Bun”en).
Detailed circumstances of the contemporary case of a spontaneus enlightenment are given in: Courtois, Flora. 1986. An experience of enlightenment. Wheaton. Ill: The Theosophical Publishing House, A Quest Book.
Kobori Nanrei [Nanrai] Sohaku (1918- ). Teacher. Rinzai line. Tea ceremony master. Painter. Abbot of Ry™k™in. Head of Ryokoin temple at Daitokuji. Former director of First Zen Institute of America in Japan. (tmc 7.03.93)
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