Zen The Special Transmission ~ 01
event type | discourse |
date & time | 1 Jul 1980 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 57min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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shorttitle | SPCIAL01 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Chao Chou asked Nan Chuan, "What is the Tao?"
- Nan Chuan answered, "The ordinary mind is Tao."
- Chao Chou then asked, "How can one approach it?"
- Nan Chuan replied, "If you want to approach it, you will certainly miss it."
- "If you do not approach it, how do you know it is the Tao?"
- The Tao is not a matter of knowing, nor a matter of not knowing. To know is a delusory way of thinking, and not to know is a matter of insensibility. If one can realize the Tao unmistakably, his mind will be like the great space -- vast, void, and clear. How, then, can one regard this as right and that as wrong?"
- Upon hearing this remark, Chao Chou was immediately awakened.
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