The Ultimate Path is not
one-sided, the Final Truth is not biased.
We must not seize upon the views of just one
of these approaches. We must understand
them as one and make them all
perfect and wondrous.
In essence,
if you are confined to one
of them, they are all wrong; if you
reconcile them, they are all correct.
Forget sentiments and return
to the ocean of
wisdom.
Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka
Each of you has a
priceless jewel in your own body.
It radiates light through your eyes, shining
through the mountains, river, and earth. It radiates light
through your ears, taking in all sounds, good and bad.
It radiates light through your six senses day
and night. This is also called
absorption in light.
You yourself do not
recognize it, but it is in your
physical body, supporting it inside
and out, not letting it tip over. Even if you
are carrying a double load of rocks
over a single-log bridge,
it still doesn’t let
you fall over.
What is it?
If you seek in the slightest,
it cannot be seen.
My teaching
which has come down
from the ancient Buddhas
is not dependent on meditation
(dhyana) or on diligent application
of any kind. When you attain the insight as
attained by the Buddha, you realize that Mind is
Buddha and Buddha is Mind, that Mind, Buddha,
sentient beings, Bodhi (enlightenment),
and Klesa (passions) are of one and
the same substance while
they vary in names.
You should know that
your own mind−essence is neither subject
to annihilation nor eternally subsisting, is neither
pure nor defiled, that it remains perfectly undisturbed and
self−sufficient and the same with the wise and the ignorant, that it
is not limited in its working, and that it is not included in the
category of mind (citta), consciousness (manas), or
thought (vijnana). The three worlds of desire,
form, and no−form, and the six paths
of existence are no more than
manifestations of your
mind itself.
They are all like the moon
reflected in water or images in the
mirror. How can we speak of them as being
born or as passing away? When you come
to this understanding, you will be
furnished with all the things
you are in need of.
Looking for
nothing in particular,
wholly without ambition,
good-naturedly doing not doing,
you arrive at the center of yourself
and find the whole universe
waiting there.
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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.)
