Dead Dharma teachers and their dead words
Some erring Zennists unequivocally have it in for learning anything from what they call, in so most words, a functions of passed Dharma teachers. They hold that usually practicing with a vital Zen master, face to face, will take them to beyond shore. But this is a fallacy, a fallacy for a reason that reading a functions of passed Dharma teachers is not usually book learning, as well as not all so-called Zen masters have been awakened to a inlet of Mind who are, therefore, unreliable.
From where exactly these Zennists get such hare brain opinions is beyond me. I suspect they have their birth in a fact that reading a functions of passed Dharma teachers is not easy for them. It is most easier to join some Zen center; putting ones predestine in to a hands of some person whom theyve never met before; presumption by a robes theyre wearing theyre pretty most Lord Buddha! Well, this is called credulity. It is some-more expected a result of karmabad karmabecause such people lack a capacity to sense a sublime.
We should not covet those with a good nose who can collect up a gloomy scent of a high in a passed difference of passed Dharma teachers. Their passed words, you need to bear in mind, have never stopped indicating to a undyingunlike most of todays vital teachers whose difference indicate to a dead. For example, even yet Zen master Joshu is dead, that which charcterised him to utter Mu still lives on. It is in every sentient beingit cannot die. It moves a hands as well as feet according to a passed teacher, Bodhidharma. It teaches even now.
This brings me to a make a difference of todays zazen or practice that amounts to what Zen master Hakuin called passed sitting in that a intent contemplated is a dying physique together with its dying breaths as well as thoughts. To be sure, there is zero everlasting in this trouble-maker practice! Does a skilful who sits in zazen see this margin as Zen master Hongzhi, of silent enlightenment (mozhao) Zen, named it where birth as well as genocide do not! appear? Hongzhi serve described a margin this way.
"The margin of boundless emptiness is what exists from a very beginning. You contingency purify, cure, grub down, or brush away all a tendencies you have fabricated in to strong habits. Then you can reside in a transparent circle of brightness" (Cultivating a Empty Field, p. 24).
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We all have a clear, wondrously splendid margin from a beginning. Many lifetimes of disagreement come usually from distrust, hindrance, as well as screens of confusion that you create in a scenario of isolation (ibid, p. 25).
The passed Dharma teachers of a past like Zen master Hongzhi as well as Zen master Hakuin also forked to a everlasting that could be seen within us if you were persistent sufficient in seeking for itnot usually awaiting it to show up out of a blue a longer you sit.
There is zero wrong with studying with passed Dharma teachers as well as reading their passed difference that still indicate to a everlasting Buddha-nature. What should be avoided is studying with vital Dharma teachers who indicate to a dead; who fundamentally learn samsaranot nirvana.
