where thoughts do not operate
Allen Barker
Letter from the Korean Zen teacher Pogye in answer
to Prime Minister Yi
Since you have already focussed your attention on
the koan "No", you do not have to change your study.
When you focus on any other koan, since you have
already studied the koan "No", you are sure to have
a causal basis with the koan "No" that is a bit
ripe. It is important that you do not shift or
change your study.
Just keep your attention on the koan twenty-four
hours a day, whatever you are doing. It does not
matter how long it takes until you awaken or do
not awaken.
Do not concern yourself with whether it is
flavorful or flavorless. Do not concern yourself
with whether you get power or not. Press on to
where thoughts do not reach, to where thoughts do
not operate. This is where all the buddhas and
ancestral teachers put down their bodies and lives.
[From _Meditating with Koans_, J.C. Cleary's 1992
translation of Zhuhong's compilation _Impetus to
Advance in the Zen Gate_, originally published in
1600. Zhuhong says that a record of this letter
was obtained in Korea by Xu Yuanzhen in 1597, on
his eastern expedition.]
Charles E Hardwidge
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It sounds like some hoighty toighty needs his head kicking in.
Do I pass?
*positions broadsword one inch under nose and raises eyebrow*
Humph.
*turns back and walks away*
--
Charles E Hardwidge
zenworm
wrote:
> "Allen Barker" <allendotelldotbar...@gmail.com> wrote in message
no
> *positions broadsword one inch under nose and raises eyebrow*
>
> Humph.
>
> *turns back and walks away*
>
> --
> Charles E Hardwidge
^worm
Lee
"Charles E Hardwidge" <bo...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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everybody passes. light a match
and get it over with.
halfawake
tee hee :)
zenworm
"Do I pass?"
no
"tee hee :)"
no
^~
RaaN
wrote:
Letter from Prime minister Yi in answer to the Korean Zen teacher
Pogye:
No.
--
RaaN