Post by Neo on Oct 17, 2020 10:17:28 GMT -5
When the three poisons are present in your mind, you live in a land of filth.
When the three poisons are absent from your mind, you live in a land of purity.
The sutras say, "if you fill a land with impurity and filth, no Buddha will ever appear." Impurity and filth refer to on and the other poisons. A Buddha refers to a pure and awakened mind. There's no language that, isn't the Dharma.
To talk all day without saying anything is the Way. To be silent all day and still say something isn't the Way. Hence neither does a Tathagata speech depend on silence, nor does his silence depend on speech, nor does his speech exist apart from his silence. Those who understand both speech and silence are in samadhi. If you speak when you know, Your speech is free. If you're silent when you don't know, your silence is tied. If speech isn't attached to appearances its free. If silence is attached to appearances, it's tied. Language is essentially free. It has nothing to do with attachment. And attachment has nothing to do with language. ~ Bodhidharma's Wake-up Sermon
Source:
www.purifymind.com/Sutras19.htm
When the three poisons are absent from your mind, you live in a land of purity.
The sutras say, "if you fill a land with impurity and filth, no Buddha will ever appear." Impurity and filth refer to on and the other poisons. A Buddha refers to a pure and awakened mind. There's no language that, isn't the Dharma.
To talk all day without saying anything is the Way. To be silent all day and still say something isn't the Way. Hence neither does a Tathagata speech depend on silence, nor does his silence depend on speech, nor does his speech exist apart from his silence. Those who understand both speech and silence are in samadhi. If you speak when you know, Your speech is free. If you're silent when you don't know, your silence is tied. If speech isn't attached to appearances its free. If silence is attached to appearances, it's tied. Language is essentially free. It has nothing to do with attachment. And attachment has nothing to do with language. ~ Bodhidharma's Wake-up Sermon
Source:
www.purifymind.com/Sutras19.htm