Three-Hundred-Mile Tiger by Sokei-an Sasaki

Author:Sokei-an Sasaki [Sasaki, Sokei-an]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781491706466
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2013-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

“When anyone comes to see me, I come out and see him, but he does not know me. When I change my robes, he forms a meaning from this and falls into my words. It is mortifying. The blind baldhead has no eye [to see reality]. He only sees blue, yellow, red, or white, according to the robe I put on. If I take off the robe and enter the state of purity, he looks at me and is joyously aroused. If I remove the state of purity, he is stupefied and runs amok, raving, ‘The master is naked!’ If I ask him whether he knows the one who wears the robes or not, he abruptly turns round and sees it’s me!

“Good brothers, do not declare the robe to be the true man! The robe cannot change the man who puts on the robe. There is the robe of purity, the robe of non-existence, the robe of bodhi, the robe of nirvana, the robe of the patriarchs, the robe of the Buddha. Good Brothers, they are nothing but words, just changes of robe! Whipping up air from your abdominal sea, you rattle your teeth and make meanings. It is clear they are only phantoms.

“Good brothers, in the outer world you display the works of speech; in the inner world you manifest the mind’s place. Mind exhibits itself with thoughts; therefore, they are only robes. If you acknowledge the robe that you put on to be true understanding, though you pass through kalpas of time, you are only a man of robes and will transmigrate through life and death in the three worlds. Better to be peaceful. Meeting him, I am not aware of him. Conversing with him, I do not know his name.

“Students of today cannot attain because their understanding is based on names. They write the words of some dead, old man upon the pages of a big book, enfold it in four or five layers of cloth and allow no one to see it. They declare, “This is the mystery!” and carefully attend to it. This is a great error. Blind idiots! What kind of juice do you expect to get from such a dry bone!

“Then there are those who, unable to discriminate good from bad, conjecture and speculate on the Buddha’s teachings and haphazardly set up meanings. It is like putting a lump of dung into your mouth and transferring it to another. They are like people playing word games, spending a lifetime for nothing. They say they are renouncers of home, yet they cannot answer a question when asked about the Buddha’s Dharma. In their dismay, their eyes stare like black-lacquered beads, and their mouths bend like carrying poles. Even at the advent of Maitreya [they will not meet him], but will transmigrate to another world and suffer the torments of hell.”

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