Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by Dogen

Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by Dogen

Author:Dogen [Dogen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780834828360
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


Rujing, my late master, said: “Although there are a number of those in all directions who ascend the lion seat and are regarded as masters of humans and devas, there are none who understand buddha dharma.”

Thus, they [such false teachers] established the teaching of the “Five Schools” and are stagnant with phrases on top of phrases. They are truly enemies of buddha ancestors.

Sometimes the sect of Huanglong, Zen Master Huinan, is called the “Huanglong School,” but people will soon know about the mistake.

In fact, when the World-Honored One was alive, he did not call his teaching the “Buddha School,” “Vulture Peak School,” or “Jeta Grove School.” He did not call it “My Mind School” or the “Buddha Mind School.” In which discourses did he call it the “Buddha Mind School”? Why, then, do people nowadays call it the “Buddha Mind School”? For what reason would the World-Honored One name the teaching after his mind? How would the teaching be the “mind”?

If there is to be a “Buddha Mind School,” there should be a “Buddha Body School,” “Buddha Eye School,” “Buddha Ear School,” or “Buddha Nose-and-Tongue School.” There should be a “Buddha Marrow School,” “Buddha Bones School,” “Buddha Leg School,” or “Buddha Land School.” But there are none of these. Therefore, know that the “Buddha Mind School” is a false name.

When Shakyamuni Buddha broadly took up the reality of all things in the buddha land of the ten directions, and taught in the buddha land of the ten directions, he did not say that he had established a school in the buddha land of the ten directions. If the name “school” is within the teaching of buddha ancestors, it should exist in the buddha land. If it were in the buddha land, the name would form a part of the Buddha’s discourses. But it does not, so we know that the name “school” is not an accoutrement of the buddha land. The ancestors did not speak of the name “school,” so we know that it is not one of the furnishings of the ancestors’ abode. This not only is ridiculed by other people and prohibited by all buddhas, but is also ridiculed by the self. Refrain from using these names. Do not say there are Five Houses in the Buddha’s teaching.



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