Old Tcheng's words

[Guest guest]

Baldheads, the Buddha first sought the primordial spirit through the

individual mind. He became aware that it was useless. The Buddha

subsequently sought the primordial spirit through disciplines and practices.

In doing so he also saw that it was fruitless. Under the Bodhi Tree he had

still not found the primordial spirit, but he knew that the individual mind

and action could not make him see his real nature. So the Buddha gave up

using the individual mind and action accepted his ignorance and admitted his

inability to put an end to it.

 

The Buddha was all uncertainty. He was waiting without worrying about

anything. He was still, like a piece of dead wood, when, upon seeing the

morning star, primordial spirit illumined him.

 

That is the Buddha's experience. That is the example and primordial teaching

he has left.

 

But you the Buddha's disciples, what have all of you done? You have laid

hold of the Buddha to make his life in to a legend at which you can marvel.

You make his person into an idol that may be worshipped. You have taken the

Buddha's words and made of them something sacred that is worth endlessly

learning, reciting and transcribing. With respect to the Buddha's life and

words, you have created great many different schools, written countless

tracts and chattered incessantly. You have built temples and made statues.

You have lit incense and burnt camphor. You have adopted beliefs and laid

down dogmas, rules, disciplines and practices.

 

Baldheads, this is how you have been trapped and deceived by all that the

Buddha recognized as being erroneous. These things can only make one go

astray. You have thereby set up sky-high walls in front of the primordial

spirit that you want to see.

 

Baldheads, if you persist in your confusion, what failures your lives will

be!

 

* * *

 

 

Now, Baldheads, listen to me with utmost attention. I will reveal to you the

great secret of the primordial spirit. It is the most important thing that

has ever been said about it.

 

Here it is

 

THERE IS NO SECRET OF THE PRIMORDIAL SPIRIT.

 

Old Tcheng executed a pirouette and disappeared. No one has ever heard about

him since

 

 

( Concluded )

 

Jai Sri Ramana

 

Ramana Sarma