Join us tomorrow at Taego Zen Center 10:00am-12:00pm for Sunday service and Lunch. The Dharma talk with be on Huang Po p.29 from The Teaching of Huang Po by John Blofeld The Master said to me: All the Buddha’s and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, besides which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. It is not green nor yellow, and has neither form or appearance. It does belong to categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought in terms of old or new. It is neither long nor short, big or small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces and comparisons. It is that which you see before you – begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. The One Mind alone is Buddha, and there is no distinction between Buddha and sentient beings, but that sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it, for that is using Buddha to seek Buddha and using mind to grasp Mind. Even though they do their utmost for a full aeon, they will not be able to attain it. They do not know that, if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind is the Buddha and the Buddha is all living beings. It is not the less for being manifested in ordinary beings, nor is it greater for being manifested in the Buddhas.
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 16:40:23 +0000
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