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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:42 pm 
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It was/is: "The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind" (amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huan ... 0802150926).

Here is the wikipage of the dude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangbo_Xiyun
LOL, at that he used to hit students. To quote:
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There are a number of instances in the record of Huángbò slapping students.
What I liked about the book.
It is direct. To the point. And identifies the bullshit/false immediately and goes back to the point.

Here is alink to a website with some quotes of what he said: http://members.optushome.com.au/davidqu ... uangPo.htm

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:08 pm 
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Libertas wrote:
On the website about his writings, I especially liked this sentence:
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If you are not absolutely convinced that the Mind is the Buddha, and if you are attached to forms, practices and meritorious performances, your way of thinking is false and quite incompatible with the Way.
I like this sentence too.
Clearly points out where most of the spiritual (seekers) and religious people go "wrong".

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:23 am 
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Slapping students, like Zen Monitors

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>>>Huangbo Xiyun was a very highly evolved Zen Buddhistic teacher.


Some years after Huang Po's ordination, while journeying to Mount T'ien T'ai, he met a monk with whom he soon became aquainted. They continued their journey together. Finding the way barred by a mountain stream in flood the Master lent upon his staff and halted, at which his friend entreated him to proceed.
"No. You go first," said Huang-Po.
So the former floated his big straw rain-hat on the torrent and easily made his way to the other side.
"I," sighed the Master, "have allowed such a fellow to accompany me! I ought to have slain him with a blow of my staff!"



The sly monk had used supranatural powers in order to cross the stream like a "show off". Huang Po was aware that such powers are only to be regarded as by-products. As a Zen Master, Huang Po used harsh language to make a point. >>>

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:04 am 
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http://dharmaflower.net/_collection/dharmamind.pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/53657679/The-Z ... ang-po-PDF

Enjoy. :)

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:35 pm 
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I wanted to up this thread, so here are some quotes :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangbo_Xiyun
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To awaken suddenly to the fact that your own Mind is the Buddha, that there is nothing to be attained or a single action to be performed - this is the Supreme Way.[9]


'Studying the Way’ is just a figure of speech [...] In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. You must not allow this name [the Way] to lead you into forming a mental concept of a road.[13]


If you students of the Way wish to become Buddhas, you need study no doctrines whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.[15]


Please note that I did not say there is no Zen. I merely pointed out that there are no teachers![18]

http://www.mlquotes.com/authors/huangbo ... ang_po%29/
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When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.


Forget all your concepts. All that you have learned about truth is false.


People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.


Do not seek truth. Instead, look at the false beliefs that you already have. It's when we stop seeking something that we realize we are on the good path.


Here it is--right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.
http://www.geocities.com/lesliebarclay/HuangPo1.html
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The Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts and so the Way is entirely misunderstood.


Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha.


We cannot become what we have always been; we can only become intuitively aware of our original state, previously hidden from us by the clouds of maya.


A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding; and by this understanding will you awake to the truth of Zen.


Have no longing to become a future Buddha; your sole concern should be, as thought succeeds thought, to avoid clinging to any of them.


Develop a mind which rests on no thing whatsoever.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Huangbo_Xiyun
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The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

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Zen masters whacking a student with a stick is part of the deal in many schools and IMHO one of the best ways to cut to the point -- it's the ultimate "oh, yeah?" to being stuck in the 'nothing is real'.

There is a story of one student who refused to do his chores because if nothing is real, what is the point of doing anything? So they took away his food. Shit got 'real' for him pretty quickly .

It was never that nothing exists, more that nothing exists inherently outside of experience -- there are not two things with one experiencing the other -- subject and object merge as in the quote above.

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Sticks

and

Walls


..

Such simple tools with so many practical uses :D

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