Hotetsu S Zen Blog Gateless Gate 30 Gateless gate 30. mazu daoyi (baso doitsu, 709 788, 8th gen), disciple of nanyue. damei fachang (daibai hojo, 752 839, 9th gen), disciple of mazu. damei asked mazu in all earnestness, "what is the buddha?" mazu answered, "mind is buddha." if you grasp it on the spot, you wear buddha's clothes, eat buddha's food, speak buddha's words, do buddha. To open the gate of realization, one must block off one's road of conceptualization. at the moment that jinhua called for the boy to stop and the boy turned his head toward jinhua, and the master raised his finger there! with his road of thinking blocked, the boy could be enlightened.
Hotetsu S Zen Blog Gateless Gate 2 The second nen immediately follows the first and makes the first its object of reflection. by this means, one becomes conscious of one's own thoughts. the secondary nen integrate and synthesize preceding nen into a continuous stream of thought. these nen are the basis of self consciousness and ego activity. 06 08 2016. the gateless gate, case 30. the case: a monk asked baso, “what is buddha?”. baso said, “this very mind is buddha”. commentary: baso’s ‘mind is buddha’ has been persistently misunderstood. people might think there is a special state of mind free from delusion, or a mind realm of buddha, or that mind is true reality, or. Mazu is the founder of the hongzhou school, from which the the linji and the guiyang houses of zen derived. mazu reportedly had 139 dharma successors, including baizhang and nanquan. mazu appears in five of our koans: gg #30, gg #33, bcr #3 (bos # 36), bcr #73 (bos #6), and bcr #53. case a monk asked mazu in all earnestness, "what is the buddha?". 12. gateless gate (mumonkan, wumenguan) #41. bodhidharma puts the mind to rest. case. bodhidarma sat facing the wall. the second patriarch [shenguang, later called huike], standing in the snow, cut off his arm and said, "your disciple's mind is not yet at peace. i beg you, master, give it rest." bodhidharma said, "bring your mind to me; i will.
Hotetsu S Zen Blog Gateless Gate 3 Mazu is the founder of the hongzhou school, from which the the linji and the guiyang houses of zen derived. mazu reportedly had 139 dharma successors, including baizhang and nanquan. mazu appears in five of our koans: gg #30, gg #33, bcr #3 (bos # 36), bcr #73 (bos #6), and bcr #53. case a monk asked mazu in all earnestness, "what is the buddha?". 12. gateless gate (mumonkan, wumenguan) #41. bodhidharma puts the mind to rest. case. bodhidarma sat facing the wall. the second patriarch [shenguang, later called huike], standing in the snow, cut off his arm and said, "your disciple's mind is not yet at peace. i beg you, master, give it rest." bodhidharma said, "bring your mind to me; i will. Wumen's comment (shibayama) if you can rightly give the three turning words here, you will be the master wherever you may be, and live up o the dharma no mater how varied the circumstances. if, however, you are unable to give them, i warn you, you will get tired of the food you have bolted, and well chewed food keeps hunger away. The gateless barrier, translated as the gateless gate, is a collection of 48 zen koans compiled in the early 13th century by the chinese zen master wumen huikai. the title can also be translated as wumen’s barrier (the author’s name, which literally means “no gate”, is the same as the title’s first two characters).
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