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the presence of things as they are

javier vallhonrat

 

Break open a single

particle and all the sutras grow clear:

the great merit-wheel of the dharma turns as a whole.

The womb of a donkey gives birth to the noble horse.

Each time you look, you’ll see it new.

 

For zazen, a quiet room is suitable.

Eat and drink moderately. Cast aside all involvements

and cease all affairs. Do not think good or bad. Do not administer

pros and cons. Cease all the movements of the conscious mind,

the gauging of all thoughts and views. Have no designs on

becoming a buddha. Zazen has nothing whatever

to do with sitting or lying down.

 

Think of not thinking.

How do you think of not-thinking? Without thinking.

This in itself is the essential art of zazen. The zazen I speak of is not

learning meditation. It is simply the dharma-gate of repose and

bliss, the cultivation-authentication of totally culminated

enlightenment. It is the presence of

things as they are.

 

Dogen

fukan zazengi

 

this is the pure buddhaland

within purity

 

There is no dharma

that can be explained, no mind that

can be spoken of: inherent reality-nature is empty.

Going back to the fundamental basis is the Path. The real

identity of the Path is empty and boundless, vast and pure.

With its stillness and solitude, it obliterates the cosmos.

It pervades ancient and modern, but its nature

is pure. It is perfect from top to bottom

and everywhere pure. This is the

pure buddha-land.

 

…The Path

of enlightenment

cannot be charted or measured:

highest of the high, vast beyond limit,

deepest of the deep, profound beyond

fathoming, big enough to contain

heaven and earth, small enough

to enter an infinitesimal

point—thus it is called

the Path.

 

Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka

full text here

 

 

The Sixth Patriarch

heard someone recite the Diamond

Sutra phrase “arouse the mind without

placing it anywhere,” and

he awakened.

 

Daito

 

the great dharma boat

 

When hate and

love don’t block the mind,

stretch out both legs and

then lie down.

 

If you hope and intend

to transform others, you must perfect

expedient means. Don’t cause them to have

doubts, and then their self-nature

will appear.

 

The Buddhadharma is

here in the world; enlightenment is

not apart from the world. To search for Bodhi

apart from the world is like looking for

a hare with horns.

 

Right views are

transcendental; deviant views

are all mundane. Deviant and right

completely destroyed: the

Bodhi nature appears

spontaneously.

 

This verse is

the Sudden Teaching, also called

the great dharma boat. Hear in confusion,

pass through ages, in an instant’s

space, enlightenment.

 

Hui Neng