direct path to enligthement
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Scott R. Brown
Here is a quote by Huang Po, it is found in verse #13 of the text, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po On The Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld:
If you students of the WAY wish to become Buddhas, you need study no doctrines [dharmas] whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.
The eighty-four thousand methods for countering the eighty-four thousand forms of delusion are merely figures of speech for drawing people towards the Gate. In fact, none of them have real existence. Relinquishment of everything is Dharma, and he who understands this is a Buddha, but relinquishment of ALL delusions leaves no Dharma on which to lay hold!
For those unfamiliar with Huang Po, Zen Master Hsi Yun (Huang Po) taught in the 800's A.D. and died approximately 850 A. D. He was the Dharma Master of I Husan, founder of the Lin Chi, (Rinzai) sect.
From my personal experience,
The big picture is correct.
As for,
How to get beyond the mind and see one's buddha nature, that needs a master.
After that how to practice to desolve all the habit, that also needs a method of cultivation.
Thus, it is called Cultivation after Enligtenment. That is the path of Zen.
or, to put it another way...
PRAJNA PARAMITA HRIDAYA SUTRA (Perfect Wisdom Heart Sutra)
The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, residing in a state of deep meditation,
Realized that the five basic natures are empty of self-existence,
And thereby broke free from the bonds of all suffering and dangers.
Then, saying to the disciple Sariputa:
“Oh, Sariputa,
Form does not differ from emptiness,
Emptiness does not differ from form.
Form is emptiness,
Emptiness is form.
Perception, cognition, action and memory are also as such.
Oh, Sariputa,
All nature is manifestation of emptiness:
No beginning and no ending,
Nothing soiled, nothing pure,
No gain, no loss.
No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind,
No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touch or consciousness,
Neither visual realm, nor consciousness realm.
No ignorance, no end to ignorance,
No aging and death, no end to aging and death.
No suffering, no cause of suffering, no liberation from suffering, and no path out of suffering,
No wisdom and no realization.
Without clinging to anything,
A Bodhisattva who follows the Prajna Paramita
Is freed of all hindrance and obstruction in heart and mind,
And being therefore without fear,
Passes far beyond all delusions and fantasies,
Entering into the state of Ultimate Nirvana.
The Buddhas of the past, present and future,
Through their reliance on the Prajnaparamita,
Likewise attain the unsurpassable True Enlightenment that is without any falsehood.
Therefore, behold this Prajna Paramita
This radiant, clear mantra,
The unfailing, supreme mantra:
GATE, GATE, PARAGATE, PARASAMGATE, BODHI SVAHA!