Sangha Instruction
Abstract
This section consists of relatively long addresses of the Master to his gathered monks, the “sangha.” He announces to them that the most important thing for a practitioner of the buddhadharma is to “behold reality as it truly is.” The following themes are sounded: the true person is none other than the monks themselves, right in front of Master Linji; there is no need therefore to go seeking outside oneself; in one’s current venue of activities (everyday life) nothing is lacking; to hesitate is to lose—“dithering” or mental reflection is bad; a realized true person brings to bear everything he’s got, that is, exhibits the non-verbal, unconstrained embodiment of the spontaneity of the buddha nature; a realized true person “rides” the vishayas (sense objects) and is never “rotated” passively by vishayas, and so forth. This section paraphrases and alludes to a wide range of Mahāyāna sutras, especially the Śūraṃgama Sūtra.
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- Authors
- Broughton, J. L., & Watanabe, E. Y.
- Venue
- The Record of Linji
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2012-12-07
- Pages
- 37-77
- OpenAlex
- W4244666482
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Indian History and Philosophy
- Keywords
- Linji Yixuan, Linji school, Zen Buddhism, Buddha-nature, dithering, Mahayana sutras, self-realization
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