A nice quote from Kōdō Sawaki. Taken from the Dogen Institute blog: https://dogeninstitute.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/sawaki-on-the-poetry-of-shodoka/. The first Zen poem that appeared in China is the Shinjinmei of the third patriarch. The second text in verse is the Shōdōka. The poem is in Chinese, but in order to render it accessible to the Japanese reader, I have introduced […]
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Seosan Daesa on the Gate of Chanting (念佛門)
“So then the distance to the Western Land resides in the person and not in the Dharma.”
然則西方遠近, 在於人而不在於法也;
Hakuin on Demons, Nonduality, and Bodhicitta
魔 DEMON
縦你入得不二门無菩提心墮魔
Even if you somehow manage to pass through the gate of nonduality, if you do not have bodhicitta you will still fall into the realm of demons
若人欲到法成就須鞭四弘誓願輪
If you wish to finally and truly attain the Dharma, you must ceaselessly turn the wheel of the Four Great Vows
The ink-line: “The mind and speech of the Buddha are never at odds.”
“The Sutras are like the carpenter’s ink-line, clearly distinguishing what is erroneous from what is correct …. The ink-line itself is not a feat of craftsmanship, yet the skilled artisan must rely upon it.”
Unicorns, dragons, tortoise shells, and mirrors ……
禪苑麟龍。 祖門龜鏡。 示一教而風行電卷。
Unicorns and dragons gather to work their magic in the meditation groves of the Zen school. Wielding the tortoise shells and mirrors of the ancestral gateways, they conjur up the One Dharma of Shakyamuni Buddha, and then send it forth for the sake of sentient beings — carried on the wind, and revealed in the thunder.
Incense Offering Mantra (獻香眞言) Part One
A number of questions can be asked about this mantra:
(1) Where does it come from?
(2) How is the mantra written in Hanja? (And does this matter – and if so, why?)
(3) How is it written in Siddham? (And does this matter – and if so, why?)
(4) Where can we hope to find the “original” Sanskrit form?
(5) What is the relationship between this mantra and the very similar mantra in Tibetan Buddhism: “Om Vajra Duphe Ah Hum”?
Original Chinese text of Torei Enji’s “Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School”
This post contains the complete Chinese text of Master Torie Enji’s “Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School”, 宗門無盡燈論.
河裏失錢，河裏摝。 (A coin lost in the river is found in the river.)
Question: “What is the meaning of sitting upright and reflecting on reality?”
The master said: “A coin lost in the river is found in the river.”
Sanskrit version of Mantra for Subduing Demons (降魔眞言)
From : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W494P2xWtM 《降伏三界忿怒明王真》// ་སུམྦྷ་ནི་སུམྦྷ་ནི་ཧཱུྃ། གྷྲྀཧྞ་གྷྲྀཧྞ་ཧཱུྃ། གྷྲྀཧྞ་པ་ཡ་གྷྲྀཧྞ་པ་ཡ་ཧཱུྃ // ཨཱ་ན་ཡ་ཧོ། བྷ་ག་ཝཱན། བིདྱཱ་རཱ་ཛཱ་ཡ་ཀྲོ་དྷ་ཧཱུྃ་ཕཊ // 唵 遜婆你 遜婆吽 仡哩賀拏 仡哩賀拏吽 仡哩賀拏播野 // 仡哩賀拏播野吽 阿那野 呼婆 誐鍐 尾𩕳囉惹吽發吒 佛說瑜伽大教王經卷第三 西天譯經三藏朝散大夫試光祿卿明教大師臣法賢奉 詔譯 爾時世尊復入大威力熾盛光明三身金剛智金剛三摩地。出此定已。說降伏三界忿怒明王真言曰。 唵(引)遜婆你遜婆吽(引)(一)仡哩(二合)賀拏(二合)仡 哩(二合)賀拏(二合)吽(引)(二)仡哩(二合)賀拏(二合)播野 仡哩(二合)賀拏(二合)播野吽(引)(三)阿(引)那野呼婆 [言*我]鍐(引)(四)尾[寧*也](切身引)囉(引)惹吽(引)發吒(半音五) 爾時一切天人聞此明王真言已。 心生驚怖迷悶躄地。唯念大遍照金剛如來。 [驅魔眞言 · 降三世明王真言] 我以金剛 三等方便 身乘金剛 半月風輪 壇上口放 囕字光明 燒汝無明 所積之身 亦勅天上 空中地下 所有一切 作諸障難 不善心者 皆來胡跪 聽我所說 加持法音 捨諸暴惡 悖逆之心 於佛法中 […]
A new (to me) recording of the Thousand Hands and Eyes Sutra by Geum Gang Seunim
She chants the whole Sutra 7 times. Both the Hanja and Hangul are displayed, except during the Great Dharani, when only the Hangul is displayed. Also, each section of the Sutra is labeled when it starts.