The worthies of old
all had means of emancipating people.
What I teach people just requires you not to take on
the confusion of others. If you need to act,
then act, without any further
hesitation or doubt.
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a man who boasts has no merit
A man who
tiptoes can’t stand.
A man who straddles can’t
walk. A man who shows
off can’t shine.
A man
who justifies his
actions isn’t respected.
A man who boasts of his
achievements has no merit.
A man who brags will
not endure.
To a person
of tao, these things are
excess food and superfluous
behavior. Because nothing good
can come of them, he doesn’t
indulge in them.
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abandoning things is superior
thought / no-thought
Entertain thought and
you will enter the demons’ snares.
Entertain no-thought and you
will escape them.
buddha has gotten into your nostrils
Master Ciming said to an assembly, “The body of reality is formless; it manifests forms in response to beings.”
(Dahui holds up his staff.) This is a staff — what is the reality body? Leaving this complication aside, the communal hall and Buddha shrine have gotten into your nostrils, the waters of the four great oceans are on your heads, the dragon kings are under your fingernails — do you feel them?
If you feel them, you go three thousand by day, eight hundred by night, smoke rising under your feet, fire rising on your heads. If you don’t know, eat when hungry, sleep when tired.
(Dahui planted his staff once.)