Old Tcheng's words

[Guest guest]

I am before you like a piece of wood that resounds. There is no merit nor

importance to that because beings such as old Tcheng, who let the same

sound, be heard, have never been lacking and never will be until the end of

mankind. But unfortunately for you, Baldheads, since you are always

preoccupied only with appearances, you only consider the piece of wood that

is resounding. Consequently the primordial spirit does not find the echo in

you that would make you suddenly realise that you are not and have never

been other than primordial spirit.

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Baldheads, see all patriarchs and all chatterboxes such as myself as

impostors since they talk to you about something that they can neither show

nor give it to you. The only usefulness that one can possibly grant them is

that they can affirm that every being has the Buddha nature. But, in order

to finally see it in its dazzling reality, it is up to each one of you to

seek it by himself, without letting himself be diverted by anything else.

Baldheads, if you allow yourselves to be deceived by the words of the

patriarchs and all their illutionists' tricks, you will be lost.

 

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Baldheads, while hoping to see the primordial spirit you have accumulated

quite some knowledge in your petty minds, which is just like the rice that

is heaped up in the storehouses here. In doing so you have done nothing but

veil your ignorance with learned words, words for discussing true and false,

good and evil, the eternal and ephemeral, heaven and earth, all the gross

and subtle elements which man is made up of, the merits of the various paths

and practices, the level of Enlightenment that so -and-so has attained and

many other things that are just useless. This only shows how fickle you are

and how incapable of finding the right attitude.

 

Baldheads, your vice lies in your arrogant pretence of wishing to measure

the immeasurable.

 

* * * ( To be continued )

 

Jai Sri Ramana

 

Ramana Sarma