The Great Zen Master Ta Hui ~ 38
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 20 Aug 1987 pm |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 56min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | TAHUI38 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- The sutra
- A talk to the assembly (part four)
- If you were a man, a real Ch'an man, when you heard me say, "Where are there old adepts appearing in the world?" You should have spit right in my face. If you don't act this way, but accept things as soon as you hear someone bring them up, you've already fallen into the secondary.
- Again, haven't you seen master Lo Shan's saying? "The mystic gate has no doctrines, establishes no general principles. If you want to search for it, look before the sound." All you disciples of Buddha, real mind is not fixed, and real wisdom is not bounded. Even if I let these two lips go on talking -- from now till the end of time -- without a break, you still can't depend on another person's power: This is a matter in which each and every person is fully sufficient in his own right. It can neither be augmented nor diminished the least little bit.
- The patriarch said:
- Hold to it and you lose it,
- And are bound to enter false roads.
- Let go of it and naturally
- Its essence has no going or staying.
- Just have faith in this truth of one mind: it cannot be grasped, it cannot be rejected. Then you should give up your body and your life right there. If you cannot give them up, it's because of your own hesitancy -- on the last day of your life, don't blame me.
- The weather is hot and you've been standing a long time.
- Ta Hui gave a shout and descended from the seat.
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