“Today's students of the Buddha-Dharma need to look for genuine
insight. If you have genuine insight, birth and death will not
affect you, and you will be free to come and to go. Nor do you need
to look for worthiness; it will arise of itself. Followers of the
Way, the old masters had ways of making men. Do not let yourselves
be deluded by anyone; this is all I teach. If you want to make use
of it (genuine insight), then use it right now without delay or
doubt. But students nowadays do not succeed because they suffer
from lack of self-reliance. Because of this lack, you run busily
hither and thither, are driven around by circumstance and kept
whirling by the ten thousand things. You cannot find deliverance
thus. But if you can stop your heart from its ceaseless running
after wisps of the will, you will not be different from the Buddha
and patriarchs. Do you want to know the Buddha? None other than he
who here in your presence is now listening to the Dharma. Just
because you lack self-reliance, you turn to the outside and run
about seeking. Even if you find something there, it is only words
and letters and never the living spirit of the patriarchs. Do not
be deceived."
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Venerable Ones, get to know the one who plays with
these configurations. He is the original source of all the
Buddhas. Knowing him, wherever you are is home. Your physical
body, formed by the four elements, cannot understand the
Dharma you are listening to; nor can your spleen, stomach,
liver or gall; nor can the empty space. Who then can
understand the Dharma and can listen to it? The one here
before your very eyes, brilliantly clear and shining without
any form — there he is who can understand the Dharma you are
listening to. If you can really grasp this, you are not
different from the Buddhas and patriarchs. Ceaselessly he is
right here, conspicuously present.
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In the eye, it is called seeing; in the ear, hearing; in the
nose, smelling; in the mouth, talking; in the hands, grasping;
in the feet, walking. Fundamentally, it is on light;
differentiated, it becomes the six senses. When one's whole
heart comes to a full stop, one is delivered where one
stands. Why do I speak thus? It is only because I see you,
followers of the Way, all running about with an agitated
heart, quite unable to stop, fretting yourselves over the
playthings of the old masters.
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b. There are shaven pates who eat their fill and then sit down
to
do zazen. They arrest the flow (of the heart) and do not let it
act. They dislike noise and seek quietude.
These are the practices of other ways.
A patriarch said: “If you stay (fix) the heart, you see quietude.
If you arouse it, it beholds the outside; if you recollect it, the
inside is clear. If you concentrate it, Samadhi is entered.” But
all these are merely forms of activity.
Do you not know him who is right now listening to the Dharma? Why
should you need to approach him by practice, ascertain him and
solemnity him? He is not one whom you can approach or dignify.
Moreover, if he would exalt himself, then everything would gain
exaltation.
Do not be deceived.
~ Zen Master Linji
http://www.buddhism.org/Sutras/2/Teaching-of-Rinzai.htm