What kind of a person is a Ch’an Master?”

 

“When you are sitting in meditation, watch carefully to know when your consciousness starts to move.  Consciousness is always moving and flowing.  According to its coming and going, we must all be aware of it.  Use the wisdom of a diamond to control and rule it, since just like a plant, there is nothing to know.  To know there is nothing to know is the wisdom to know everything.  This is the Dharma-gate of One Form of a Bodhisattva.”

Question:  “What kind of a person is a Ch’an Master?”

Tao-hsin:  “Someone who is not disturbed either by chaos or serenity is a person with the know-how of good Ch’an practice. When one always dwells in tranquility, the mind perishes.  But if you are always in a state of discernment, then the mind scatters chaotically.  The Lotus Sutra says:  ‘The Buddha himself dwells in the Great Vehicle.  The power of meditation (ting) and of wisdom (hui) gives remarkable splendor to the dharmas which he has acquired.  These he uses to save all beings."

Question:  “How can we be enlightened to the nature of things and our minds attain lucid purity?”

 Tao-hsin:  “Neither by trying to meditate on the Buddha, nor by trying to grab hold of the mind, nor by seeing the mind, nor by analyzing the mind, nor by reflection, nor by discernment, nor by dispersing confusion, but through identification with the natural rhythms of things.  Don’t force anything to go.  Don’t force anything to stay.  Finally abiding in the one sole purity, the mind spontaneously becomes lucid and pure.

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