The Seventy-sixth of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

The Seventy-sixth Gate: Right discrimination

Right discrimination is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we eliminate all discrimination and lack of discrimination. (Nishijima/Cross)
Right thinking is a gate of realizing Darma; it leads to freedom from thinking and beyond thinking. (Tanahashi)

Gate Gatha:

May we, together with all buddhas;
Practice Right Discrimination,
That we may eliminate all dualistic thinkig.

Reflection Prompts:
1. How can Right discrimination eliminate all discrimination and lack of discrimination?
2. Or, how can it it lead to freedom from thinking and beyond thinking?
3. Write a new gatha.

Capping Verse:

Inseparable
Yet distinct
Not one and not two

stlah
合掌,生開
gassho, Shokai
stlah
仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai
"Open to life in a benevolent way"

[Tairin]

Somewhat like yesterday’s Gate Right Discrimination allows us to see things as they are rather than what we want them to be. Right Discrimination allows us to see before our filter of likes and dislikes take over.


Tairin
sat today and lah

[Shokai]

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for, or against, anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood,
the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

[Choujou]

Reflection Prompts:
1. How can Right discrimination eliminate all discrimination and lack of discrimination?
2. Or, how can it it lead to freedom from thinking and beyond thinking?
3. Write a new gatha.

1. Well, I kind of can’t say it any better than Tairin and Shokai did. Right discrimination is the letting go of discriminating. Non-discrimination. Accept, don’t expect. (More on this soon)

2. because the mind/thinking is precisely what prevents us from prajna. When one lets go of the small mind and becomes a Buddha, then one is free of and beyond thinking.

3.May we, together with all buddhas;
Accept all without expectations or discriminations
And awaken to the wholeness of all reality

Gassho,
Choujou

sat/lah today