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meditationsingles.com article, post date: 2005-10-06 |
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Rinzai Gigen
Dates: died Jan. 10, 866 A.D., China
"Followers of the Way, Buddha is not to be attained.
There is no real Dharma; it is all but surface
manifestations, like printed letters on a sign board to
indicate the Way."
"I have no dharma to give. I only cure diseases and undo knots.
Followers of the Way who come from everywhere, try not to
depend on anything. ... There is no Buddha, no Dharma, no training
and no realization. What are you so hotly chasing? Putting a head
on top of your head, you blind fools. Your head is right where it
should be."
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Followers of the Way, when I say that there is no Dharma outside, the students do not understand and deduce it is necessary to search within themselves. Then they sit, leaning against a wall, tongue pressed to the upper palate, and remain so motionless. That they take for the patriarchal gate of the Buddha-Dharma. What a great error! If you take the state of immovable purity for THIS, you acknowledge ignorance as your master. An old master said: "To get lost in the depth of the dark cave, is surely a cause for fear and trembling." But if you take the moving as THIS, all the grasses and trees can move and so should possess the Way. Therefore, what moves belongs to the element of air(wind); what does not move belongs to the element of earth; and what both moves and does not move has no being in itself. If you think to grasp the moving, it will hold itself motionless. And if you try to grasp the motionless, it will take to moving, "as a fish in a pool rises when waves are stirred." So, venerable ones, the moving and the motionless are two types of circumstance. But the man of the Way who does not depend on anything makes use of both the moving and the motionless.
(Translated by Irmgard Schloegl)
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The master had been invited to an army camp for a vegetarian banquet. At the gate post he happened to meet two of the officers. Pointing at the unhewn post, the master asked: "Is this worldly or is this sacred?" The officers were speechless. The master struck the unhewn post and uttered: "Whatever you can say, it is but a wooden post," and then went within.
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