Enlightenment is for Samsara.

[Guest guest]

Q: If Mind and the Buddha are

intrinsically one, should we continue

to practice the six paramitas and the

other orthodox means of gaining

Enlightenment?

 

A: Enlightenment springs from Mind,

regardless of your practice of the six

paramitas and the rest. All such

practices are merely expedients for

handling 'concrete' matters when

dealing with the problems of daily

life.

 

Even Enlightenment, the Absolute,

Reality, Sudden Attainment, the

Dharmakaya and all the others down to

the Ten Stages of Progress, the Four

Rewards of virtuous and wise living and

the State of Holiness and Wisdom are,

every one of them, mere concepts for

helping us through samsara; they have

nothing to do with the real Buddha-

Mind.

 

Since Mind is the Buddha, the

ideal way of attainment is to cultivate

that Buddha-Mind. Only avoid conceptual

thoughts, which lead to becoming and

cessation, to the afflictions of the

sentient world and all the rest; then

you will have no need of methods of

Enlightenment and suchlike. Therefore

it is written:

 

All the Buddha's teachings

Just had this single object:

To carry us beyond the

Stage of thought.

 

Now, if I accomplish cessation

Of my thinking,

What use to me are

The Dharmas Buddha taught?

 

From Gautama Buddha down through the

whole line of patriarchs to

Bodhidharma, none preached anything

more than the One Mind, otherwise known

as the Sole Vehicle of Liberation.

Hence, though you search throughout the

whole universe, you will never find

another vehicle. Nowhere has this

teaching leaves or branches; its one

quality is eternal truth. Hence it is a

teaching hard to accept.

 

This teaching is called the Great Way.

The very nature of the Great Way is

voidness of opposition. Bodhidharma

firmly believed in being one with the

real 'substance' of the universe in

this life! Mind and that 'substance' do

not differ one jot. That substance is

Mind. They cannot be possibly

separated. It was for this revelation

that he earned the title of Patriarch,

and therefore is it written:

The moment of realizing the unity of

Mind and the 'substance' which

constitutes reality may truly be said

to baffle description.

 

 

-----

 

Huang Po

[Guest guest]

<The very nature of the great way is voidness of

opposition.>

Back at step one, and stay there!

 

--- Arvind <adithya_comming a écrit :

 

 

 

Q: If Mind and the Buddha are

intrinsically one, should we continue

to practice the six paramitas and the

other orthodox means of gaining

Enlightenment?

 

A: Enlightenment springs from Mind,

regardless of your practice of the six

paramitas and the rest. All such

practices are merely expedients for

handling 'concrete' matters when

dealing with the problems of daily

life.

 

Even Enlightenment, the Absolute,

Reality, Sudden Attainment, the

Dharmakaya and all the others down to

the Ten Stages of Progress, the Four

Rewards of virtuous and wise living and

the State of Holiness and Wisdom are,

every one of them, mere concepts for

helping us through samsara; they have

nothing to do with the real Buddha-

Mind.

 

Since Mind is the Buddha, the

ideal way of attainment is to cultivate

that Buddha-Mind. Only avoid conceptual

thoughts, which lead to becoming and

cessation, to the afflictions of the

sentient world and all the rest; then

you will have no need of methods of

Enlightenment and suchlike. Therefore

it is written:

 

All the Buddha's teachings

Just had this single object:

To carry us beyond the

Stage of thought.

 

Now, if I accomplish cessation

Of my thinking,

What use to me are

The Dharmas Buddha taught?

 

From Gautama Buddha down through the

whole line of patriarchs to

Bodhidharma, none preached anything

more than the One Mind, otherwise known

as the Sole Vehicle of Liberation.

Hence, though you search throughout the

whole universe, you will never find

another vehicle. Nowhere has this

teaching leaves or branches; its one

quality is eternal truth. Hence it is a

teaching hard to accept.

 

This teaching is called the Great Way.

The very nature of the Great Way is

voidness of opposition. Bodhidharma

firmly believed in being one with the

real 'substance' of the universe in

this life! Mind and that 'substance' do

not differ one jot. That substance is

Mind. They cannot be possibly

separated. It was for this revelation

that he earned the title of Patriarch,

and therefore is it written:

The moment of realizing the unity of

Mind and the 'substance' which

constitutes reality may truly be said

to baffle description.

 

 

-----

 

Huang Po

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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