Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark: The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul’s Excerpts on Zen Practice (Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion) by Jr. Robert E. Buswell

Author:Jr. Robert E. Buswell [Robert E. Buswell, Jr.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780824867416
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2016-10-30T18:30:00+00:00

Sŏn Is Not the Sudden Teaching of Kyo

According to this explanation, the sudden teaching does not discuss conditioned origination and so is deficient in regard to radical acceptance. And since it is lacking in radical acceptance, it cannot perfect radical rejection. Why is this? Since the sudden teaching eradicates signs and extinguishes mental states, it perforce clings to the true nature. Consequently, how can it perfect radical rejection? The faculty of radical rejection as it is interpreted in the Sŏn school merely exposes the essence and points directly to the mind-nature that is originally ever quiescent and free from all relativity. If there is no clinging or rejection, this is then a radical rejection that remains centered in radical acceptance. This is not the same as the sudden teaching, which is utterly lacking in radical acceptance. Although the sudden teaching may therefore seem to employ radical rejection, its radical rejection remains forever imperfect. Those who do not understand this idea provoke needless contention between Sŏn and Kyo and between themselves and others. But there is nothing strange about this, for we are living in a contentious age.251

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