There are 2 kinds of Zen students who won't let go. 1 kind consists of those who did not meet real teachers at the outset of their quest, plunged into the fires of false teachers, and having been poisoned by their venom, they think their Zen study is done.
Another kind consists of those who join Zen groups and call themselves Zen students but really lack the correct basis. They just usurp what they hear, eager to be known for it, trying to prove themselves, only saying that Zen is just this.
These 2 kinds of people are fatally ill, unless they recognize their error someday and let go of it sometime.
But what are people in these conditions to let go of, after all? Just let go of the burden of "others" and "self", of ideas of gain and loss, right and wrong, Buddha and Buddhism, mystery and marvel.
As soon as you let go this way, you feel body and mind light and easy, thoroughly pure inside and out. Then your heart is clear all the time. In a cool flash of insight, you go free.
Now you are ready for refinement. If you just keep to the insight you've attained and consider it ultimate, you are still clinging to something. Zen people free from convention are very different from this.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
Another kind consists of those who join Zen groups and call themselves Zen students but really lack the correct basis. They just usurp what they hear, eager to be known for it, trying to prove themselves, only saying that Zen is just this.
These 2 kinds of people are fatally ill, unless they recognize their error someday and let go of it sometime.
But what are people in these conditions to let go of, after all? Just let go of the burden of "others" and "self", of ideas of gain and loss, right and wrong, Buddha and Buddhism, mystery and marvel.
As soon as you let go this way, you feel body and mind light and easy, thoroughly pure inside and out. Then your heart is clear all the time. In a cool flash of insight, you go free.
Now you are ready for refinement. If you just keep to the insight you've attained and consider it ultimate, you are still clinging to something. Zen people free from convention are very different from this.
~ Zen Master Ying-An
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