“The gate of deathlessness is opened to those who have
faith! “
Dr Tan Kee Guan
@ Teab one zen mind
20 hoot kiam road
65- 63344212
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Full of shit
Zen Master:
無言無說，無示無識，離諸問答。
Beyond words and language,
Beyond meaning and understandings,
Beyond all questions and answers.
汝不是患盲，
汝不是患聾，
汝不是患啞。
Are you aware of yourselves?
Are you deaf, blind, mute to yourselves?
Are you dead to yourselves?
Are you ready for spiritual life?
Or, are you simply full of shit!
Dr Tan
zen poem
Teaching the mahayana monks by jiao ran
815 – 53
Not reaching
The shore of no more Thriving
Emptiness has No regards to what boat you are travelling .
East Mountain The way of the white clouds.
Is ridiculous If you die of old age.
Reaching the other shore is a idiom quoted by The Buddha. First found in the Sutta nipatta, where nirvanna is described as reaching the other shore and the practice of the teachings of the Buddha is liken to be a boat that carries one across the sea of rebirth . In the polemic of the Lotus sutta there is a constant reference to the Maha yana vehicle is the true vehicle and the others does not leads to enlightenment. Jiao Ran in this poem is referring the polemic and rheotic of the Mahayana is a waste of precious time seen in the following verse.
East Mountain refers to fifth Patricah of Chan . It also referrs to the Chan school before the schismof North and south. Taking into consideration at Jiao Ran time there were much polemis and rheoteric between this 2 schools. Jiao Ran was saying the arguments between them were schematic and not realy related in reaching enlightment. Thus missing the point of the teaching of the Hong Ren, ie The white cloud are the teachings that rains on the mountains ( meaning senior monks ) which nourishes the mountains.
Ending with the punch line of You You. 悠悠。 Which in singular you means lesiurely. Double emphasize reverse the meaning meaning ridiculous or out of context. Thus when you are getting on in age can you afford to be so leisurely. One should thrive as quickly as one can and leaves the arguments behind.
Not reaching
The shore of no more Thriving
Emptiness has No regards to what boat you are travelling .
East Mountain The way of the white clouds.
Is ridiculous If you die of old age.
Reaching the other shore is a idiom quoted by The Buddha. First found in the Sutta nipatta, where nirvanna is described as reaching the other shore and the practice of the teachings of the Buddha is liken to be a boat that carries one across the sea of rebirth . In the polemic of the Lotus sutta there is a constant reference to the Maha yana vehicle is the true vehicle and the others does not leads to enlightenment. Jiao Ran in this poem is referring the polemic and rheotic of the Mahayana is a waste of precious time seen in the following verse.
East Mountain refers to fifth Patricah of Chan . It also referrs to the Chan school before the schismof North and south. Taking into consideration at Jiao Ran time there were much polemis and rheoteric between this 2 schools. Jiao Ran was saying the arguments between them were schematic and not realy related in reaching enlightment. Thus missing the point of the teaching of the Hong Ren, ie The white cloud are the teachings that rains on the mountains ( meaning senior monks ) which nourishes the mountains.
Ending with the punch line of You You. 悠悠。 Which in singular you means lesiurely. Double emphasize reverse the meaning meaning ridiculous or out of context. Thus when you are getting on in age can you afford to be so leisurely. One should thrive as quickly as one can and leaves the arguments behind.
see the Buddha
The Buddha:
“A monk once
approached the Buddha asked to be taught everything the Buddha knew. The Buddha answered if I teach you everything
you will go mad!”
The
Buddha: “All I teach is the way leading to enlightenment---the utter
destruction of suffering and the cause of your suffering.”
The Buddha:
“ The
leaves in my palm is all I teach not all the leaves on the tree.”
The Buddha:
“those who penetrate my dharma will see me!”
Zen Master:
“Secret in spiritual life is actually an open secret. You can read about it, listen to it, study it
and still go nowhere. That is simply
because you are not ready for the whole Truth.
You need to be guided- as a baby taking baby steps. As the Great cloud
gate Zen master says : “one for one”. So
this is the secret of the spiritual life.”
“Is your dharma practice alive? Is the Buddha alive to you?
“
“Or is he just a meaningless chant or mantra? “
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Peace in a bowl of tea
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