..续本文上一页are people with nothing to do.Therefore, [for them] activity and the defiling passions and also nonactivity and passionlessness are “pure” karma.
“There are a bunch of blind shavepates who, having stuffed themselves with food, sit down to meditate and practice contemplation. Arresting the flow of thought they don”t let it rise; they hate noise and seek stillness. This is the method of the heretics. A patriarch said, “If you stop the mind to look at stillness, arouse the mind to illumine outside, control the mind to clarify inside, concentrate the mind to enter samādhi—all such [practices] as these are artificial striving.”
“This very you, the man who right now is thus listening to my discourse, how is he to be cultivated, to be enlightened, to be adorned
He is not one to be cultivated, he is not one to be adorned. But if you let him do the adorning, then everything would be adorned. Don”t be mistaken!
“Followers of the Way, you seize upon words from the mouths of those old masters and take them to be the true Way. You think, “These good teachers are wonderful, and I, simple-minded fellow that I am, don”t dare measure such old worthies.” Blind idiots! You go through your entire life holding such views, betraying your own two eyes. Trembling with fright, like donkeys on an icy path, [you say to yourselves,] “I don”t dare disparage these good teachers for fear of making karma with my mouth!”
“Followers of the Way, it is only a great teacher who dares to disparage the buddhas, dares to disparage the patriarchs, to determine the right and the wrong of the world, to reject the teachings of the Tripiṭaka, to revile all infantile fellows, and to look for a Person amidst fortunate and unfortunate circumstances.“Therefore, when I look back over the past twelve years for a single thing having the nature of karma, I can”t find anything even the size of a mustard seed. The Chan master who is like a new bride will fear lest he be thrown out of his temple, be given no food to eat, and have no contentment and ease. From olden days our predecessors never had people anywhere who believed in them. Only after they had been driven out was their worth recognized. If they had been fully accepted by people everywhere, what would they have been good for
Therefore it is said, “The lion”s single roar splits the jackals” skulls.”
“Followers of the Way, people everywhere say that there is a Way to be practiced, a dharma to be confirmed. Tell me, what dharma will you confirm, what Way will you practice
What is lacking in your present activity
What still needs to be patched up
“The immature young monk, not understanding this, believes in these fox-spirits and lets them speak the kind of nonsense that binds other people, nonsense such as, “Only by harmonizing the principle and practice and by guarding [against] the three karmas can buddhahood be attained.” People who talk like this are as common as spring showers.
“A man of old said:
If on the road you meet a man who has mastered the Way,
Above all do not speak of the Way.
Therefore it is said:
When a man tries to practice the Way, the Way does not function,
And ten thousand evil circumstances vie in raising their heads.
But when the sword of wisdom fl ashes forth, nothing remains;
Before brightness is manifest, darkness is bright.
For that reason a man of old said, “Ordinary mind is the Way.”
“Virtuous monks, what are you looking for
[You] nondependent people of the Way who listen to my discourse right now before my eyes, [you are] bright and clear and have never lacked anything. If you want to be no different from the patriarch-buddha, just see things this way. There”s no need to waver.
“Your minds and Mind do not differ—this is called [your] living patriarch. If mind differs, its …
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