Zen Lessons by Thomas Cleary

Author:Thomas Cleary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications

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Foyan said:

Students should not get bogged down in words and sayings. Generally speaking, relying on the words and sayings of others to formulate your understanding blocks the door of your own enlightenment, and you cannot get beyond verbal symbols.

In ancient times, when Da Guanpi first saw Master Shimen Cong in private interviews, he exercised his eloquence, but Shimen said to him, “What you say is words on paper—you have not seen into the essential pure subtlety of your mind. You should seek ineffable enlightenment; when enlightened, you stand out beyond, you do not ride on words or stick to phrases, you are like a lion roaring, so that all the beasts tremble with fear. Then when you look back on the study of words, it will be like comparing ten to a hundred, like comparing a thousand to a myriad.”

Record of Things Heard at Longmen

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