“Hearing [the dharma] even without faith still fructifies into the seed of buddhahood. Training even without success is still superior to the merit of humans and divinities.”
Category: chinese
感應不虛 (Sympathetic Resonance Never Fails)
“You must deeply perceive the true nature of yourself, the Buddha, and everything as being in accord with dependent arising. And you must have absolute faith that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas always respond to your prayers, as certainly as shadows follow form and echoes follow sound.”
Ashvaghosha’s Sharing of Merit (from The Awakening of Faith)
我今已解釋， 甚深廣大義， 功德施群生， 令見真如法。 我 I 今 now 已 finished 解釋 discourse ， 甚深 incredibly profound http://www.buddhism-dict.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?q=甚深 廣 wide, vast 大義 great significance ， 功德 merit 施 spread 群生 all beings ， 令見 let/make someone see 真 truth 如法 according to the dharma 。 https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T32n1667_002
“They will all necessarily become wild foxes.”
昧落商量轉失眞.
Flipping back and forth between and making calculations about being subject to karma and being in the dark about it they lose sight of the true.
A Sino-Korean Diamond Sutra Gatha Chant
geu-eum gang ban ya ba ra mil gyeong. bul
chwi eo sang yeo yeo bu dong ha i go
il che yu wi beop yeo mong hwan po yeong
yeo ro yeong nyeo jeon eung jang nyeo si gwan
Diamond Prajna Paramita Sutra. Not
dependent on appearances, and also not moving. Why?
All impermanent dharmas like dream phantom bubble shadow,
like dew also like lightning, should constructed like this perceive.
Burn down the hermitage (烧却庵)
這件事天知地知你知我知，千萬不要给婆婆知。
“Concerning this matter, Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know, and I know. Just be sure the old woman doesn’t find out!!”
“This old monk was first in line.” (Joshu in Hell)
崔郎中問。大善知識還入地獄也無。
Student: Can a Zen Master fall into hell or not?
師云。老僧末上入。
Master Joshu: This old monk was first in line.
不是苦心人不知 (If you do not exert yourself, you cannot understand)
苦心 literally: “suffer mind”, to make an effort, to “take pains” (Sino-Korean: 고심 goshim)
The Record of Joshu at CBETA
崔郎中問。大善知識還入地獄也無。 師云。老僧末上入。 崔云。既是大善知識。為什麼入地獄。 師云。老僧若不入。爭得見郎中。
Baizhang’s Fox at CBETA
One of the main reasons I wanted to track this down is to take a closer look at the question that is at heart of this story: 大修行底人還落因果. “Does a person of great accomplishment return to falling into cause and effect?” What is a “大修行底人”, and what does it mean to “還落因果”?