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Sayings of Ch'an Masters PDF Imprimer
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Sayings of Other Ch'an Masters


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Nan-yueh Huai-jang (677-744)

There's a great story in Wu's Golden Age of Zen of how Huai-jang, who had been a disciple of Hui-neng, paid a visit to the young Ma-tsu:

"Before he [Ma-tsu] was twenty, he was already a professed monk. After his profession, he went to the Nan-yueh Mountain, where he practiced by himself sitting-in-meditation. At that time Huai-jang was the Abbot of the Prajna Temple on Nan-yueh Mountain. Seeing Ma-tsu, he recognized him by intuition as a vessel of the Dharma. So he visited him in his cell, asking, 'In practicing sitting-in-meditation, what does Your Reverence aspire to attain?' 'To attain Buddhahood!' was the answer. Huai-jang then took up a piece of brick and began to grind it against a rock in front of Ma-tsu's cell. After some moments Ma-tsu became curious and asked, 'What are you grinding it for?' 'I want to grind it into a mirror,' Huai-jang replied. Greatly amused, Ma-tsu said, 'How can you hope to grind a piece of brick into a mirror?' Huai-jang fired back, 'Since a piece of brick cannot be ground into a mirror, how then can you sit yourself into a Buddha?'

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Le Chant de la Conscience PDF Imprimer
Écrit par Nui-t'on Fa jong   
Niu-t'on Fa-jong (VIIème siècle)

extrait de "Poetry of Enlightment" Dharma Drum Pub.87

La nature de la conscience ne vient de nulle part
A quoi bon connaissance et idées ?
originellement, pas une seule vérité
alors, pourquoi parler de pratique ?

Allées et venues sans fin,
chercher sans trouver ,
autant ne rien faire .
alors, la paix étincelante

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Wei Wu Wei PDF Imprimer
Écrit par Wei Wu Wei / Terence Gray   
Wei Wu Wei

"La Voie Négative" Ed. "La Différence" 1977. (Extraits)



L'ILLUMINATION PAR LA NON-ACTION [Retour]

Toute soi-disant volonté est une manifestation du je-concept. Qui recherche l'illumination ? Dans la mesure où cette dernière est recherchée sous la contrainte du je-concept, comment pourrait-elle être atteinte ?

D'autre part, aussitôt que disparaît le je-concept, on la sent comme ayant toujours été présente.

Mais le je-concept ne désire qu'une pseudo-illumination, par laquelle il peut prétendre être sage ; l'accomplissement, impliquant son propre anéantissement, n'apparaît pas désirable du tout, et il placera sur sa route tous les obstacles possibles.

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"Traité de l'Esprit Non-dualiste" Shin Jin Meï PDF Imprimer
Écrit par Seng Tsang   
"Traité de l'Esprit Non-dualiste"

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Shin Jin Meï

Texte fondamental de la Non-Dualité (V ème siècle AC)

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Pénétrer la Voie n'est pas difficile.

Mais il ne faut ni amour ni haine, ni choix ni rejet.

Il suffit qu'il n'y ait ni amour ni haine,

Pour que la compréhension apparaisse, spontanément claire,

Comme la lumière du jour dans une caverne.

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Fingers pointing toward the Moon PDF Imprimer
Écrit par Wei Wu Wei / Terence Gray   

WEI WU WEI

Oriental philosophy from the writings of Wei Wu Wei

(pseudonym of an Irish nobleman n/o Terence Gray - 1895-1986)

(Wei Wu Wei is a Taoist term which translates as action that is non-action)

From: ‘Fingers Pointing Toward The Moon’

  • As Ouspensky tells us: on the noumenal plane – the plane of Reality, multi-dimensional – Time exists spatially, and temporal events exist - they don't happen. 'Effects' co-exist with their 'causes', and moments of different epochs exist simultaneously and contiguously. Points far apart in tri-dimensional space can touch one another; proximity and separation become affinity and repulsion, sympathy and antipathy. There is neither matter nor movement. Nothing is dead, nothing is unconscious. If that is what he said, need he have said anything else?
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