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　　“Students today can”t get anywhere. What ails you

　　 Lack of faith in yourself is what ails you. If you lack faith in yourself, you”ll keep on tumbling along, following in bewilderment after all kinds of circumstances and being taken by them through transformation after transformation without ever attaining freedom.

　　“Bring to rest the thoughts of the ceaselessly seeking mind, and you will not differ from the patriarch-buddha. Do you want to know the patriarch Buddha

　　He is none other than you who stand before me listening to my discourse. But because you students lack faith in yourselves, you run around seeking something outside. Even if, through your seeking, you did find something, that something would be nothing more than fancy descriptions in written words; never would you gain the mind of the living patriarch.

　　Make no mistake, worthy Chan men! If you don”t find it here and now, you”ll go on transmigrating through the three realms for myriads of kalpas and thousands of lives, and, held in the clutch of captivating circumstances, be born in the wombs of asses or cows.

　　“Followers of the Way, as I see it we are no different from Śākya. What do we lack for our manifold activities today

　　 The six-rayed pine light never ceases to shine. See it this way, and you”ll be a man who has nothing to do his whole life long. Virtuous monks,

　　The three realms lack tranquility

　　Just like a burning house.

　　This is not a place we remain for long. The death-dealing demon of impermanence comes in an instant, without discriminating between noble and base, old and young.

　　“If you wish to differ in no way from the patriarch-buddha, just don”t seek outside. The pure light in a single thought of yours—this is the dharmakāya buddha within your own house. The nondiscriminating light in a single thought of yours—this is the saṃbhogakāya buddha within your own house. The nondifferentiating light in a single thought of yours—this is

　　the nirmāṇakāya buddha within your own house. This threefold body is you, listening to my discourse right now before my very eyes. It is precisely because you don”t run around seeking outside that you have such meritorious activities.

　　“According to the masters of the sutras and śāstras, the threefold body is regarded as the ultimate norm. But in my view this is not so. The threefold body is merely a name; moreover, it is a threefold dependency. A man of old said, “The [buddha-]bodies are posited depending upon manifested meaning; the [buddha] lands are postulated in keeping with essential substance.”

　　Therefore we clearly know that “dharma-natured bodies” and “dharmanatured lands” are no more than shimmering reflections.

　　“Virtuous monks, you must recognize the one who manipulates these reflections. “He is the primal source of all the buddhas,” and the place to which every follower of the Way returns.

　　“This physical body of yours, composed of the four great elements, can neither expound the dharma nor listen to it; your spleen and stomach, liver and gallbladder can neither expound the dharma nor listen to it; the empty sky can neither expound the dharma nor listen to it. Then what can expound the dharma and listen to it

　　 This very you standing distinctly before me without any form, shining alone—just this can expound the dharma and listen to it! Understand it this way, and you are not different from the patriarch-buddha. Just never ever allow interruptions, and all that meets your eyes will be right. But, because “when feeling arises,

　　wisdom is barred, and when thinking changes, the substance varies,” people transmigrate through the three realms and undergo all kinds of suffering.

　　As I see it, there are none who are not of the utmost profundity, n…

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