8/20 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Buddhamitra

[Shohei]

Re: 8/20 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Buddhamitra

Hiyas
Buddha both silent and talking, still and walking, do not discriminate- the Way resides in all beings and yet cannot be grasped and claimed to be IT.
In this transmission, the ancestors point that all Buddhas are the way, do not divide, or categorize, high or low, new or old... bright or dim, all beings included though by even voicing "included" there is implied separation.

Hi everyone,

The sole purpose of journeys is to exhaust the very illusion that anything worth it will come out of them. You are always back where you started. This place.

Thanks so much for this, Taigu.

This week, Hixon's "Inside is not close, outside not far" and Cook's "Think quietly about this: inside is not close, and outside is not separate" resonated with me the most. And I appreciated Hixon's reminder about Buddha nature/True Self/Original Mind being always present, as it is our true nature or natural state: "Yet this lotus of Wonderful Mind actually blossoms night and day, under all conditions." I love the last line of Cook's verse: "How can senses and their objects defile one's own nature?"

Gassho, Jikyo

^^ Thank you to you both!!

Gassho
Shohei
who really enjoys the "dance" of these two books together as one!

[Myozan Kodo]

Re: 8/20 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Buddhamitra

“Everyone is without exception the way, and there is nothing that is not mind”

So, we are all Buddha:
The silent and the talkative
The still and the moving
The good and the evil (see my thread this week)
The Buddha and the Not-Buddha

SO: the Not-Buddha is itself also completely the Buddha?
Zen slams its hammer of insight onto the mould of duality again

And the fundamental point is?
Right here, right now (before I even typed those words!)
This oneness can’t ever be caught. Pretty slippery, eh?

Gassho,
Soen

[Shogen]

Re: 8/20 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Buddhamitra

" You are the Way right now" Buddhanandi. What an awesome gift it is to be given absolute responsibility for our volitional actions and their resulting effects. Gassho zak

[Hogo]

Re: 8/20 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Buddhamitra

I got nothin this time
Just wanted to say tonight that it has been a pleasure to read all your great comments as I read.
I think some of this is really sinking in.
Thank you all
Dave.

[Fuken]

Re: 8/20 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Buddhamitra

In the Cleary translation I am reading along with the two other selections there is a line: "There is never any error..."

I bet a lot of people would like their bosses to think that way.
Being a boss, I would like to think that way.
But there are errors. Even if they are not really errors, but teaching opportunities, and/or opportunities for intimacy.

Is seeking to inspire a [this] bodhisattva wrong?