The One Taste of Truth: Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea by William Scott Wilson

Author:William Scott Wilson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Philosophy, Zen Poetry, Zen Buddhism, Japanese Tea Ceremony - Religious Aspects - Zen Buddhism, History and Criticism, Zen, Japanese, General, Japanese Tea Ceremony, Religion, Buddhism, Religious Aspects, Zen Meditations, Japanese - History and Criticism
ISBN: 9781611800265
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2013-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

非

佛

Hibutsu “Not the Buddha”

A monk asked Ma Tsu, “What is the Buddha?”

Ma Tsu said, “Not Mind, not the Buddha.” Wu-men’s Commentary

If you can see through this, your study [of Zen] has netted the matter.

The Verse

If you encounter a swordsman on the road, give him [a sword]. If it’s not a poet you meet, don’t offer him a poem. When you meet someone, explain just one-third [of your

truth].

Don’t give it all away.

Wumenkuan, case 33 What are we to make of this? Is the Mind, Buddha? Is the Buddha, Mind? Is the Not-Mind, Buddha? And what about the Not-Buddha?

In Zen, they say something to the effect that “If you speak, you’re wrong from the start. If you don’t speak, you’re deeply confused.” Fu Niu Shan Tzu Tsai, a disciple of Ma Tsu, put it this way:

“The mind is the Buddha”—this is the medicine for sick people. “No mind, no Buddha”—this is to cure people who are sick because of the medicine.3

And, when Nan-ch’uan was asked essentially the same question, he replied,

“It is not mind; it is not Buddha; it is not things.”

The more we compare and contrast, the deeper we get into words and the further we get away from the Truth.

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