The Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidharma - Part 5
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- An American-born Zen monk Hyon Gak Sunim explains some of Bodhidharma's teachings.
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What is the difference between mind and the spirit?
Hello. The question itself does not arise in the context of these teachings (even though it arose for you.) "Spirit" is a figment of mind, and mind is not real. Granted, in the context of these teachings we refer to "mind" (i.e., thinking), but only provisionally. Since thoughts themselves are unreal, mind by default is also unreal; an unreal effect cannot arise from a real cause, therefore the apparent cause, "mind", is also unreal. Why? It's changeful.
There is no reason to think or worry about "spirit." "Spirit" is not separate from spirit-thought, like a car-thought, or pizza-thought, or whatever other thought seems to appear and then slowly recede. The unreal mind is just a thought-machine, churning away all the time. Don't attach to it. What is "spirit" beyond your learned ideas, concepts, attitudes, and mental formations about "spirit"? It's nothing. It's just an idea that is bound up with language, and the place where no idea or language can go is the only thing of real interest here.
Instead ask: WHAT is thinking? WHAT thinks that it thinks something? WHAT is worried about or otherwise concerned with the question of "spirit"? Investigate THAT. Find out where all this is coming from. The video series you're watching now is doing exactly that.
Best regards!
Hyon Gak Sunim talked about the following section of Blood Stream Sutra in this lecture:
問曰：因何不得禮佛菩薩等？答曰：天魔波旬阿修羅示見神通，皆作得菩薩相貌。種種變化，是外道，總不是佛。佛是自心，莫錯禮拜。佛是西國語，此土云覺性。覺者靈覺，應機接物，揚眉瞬目，運手動足，皆是自己靈覺之性。性即是心，心即是佛，佛即是道，道即是禪。禪之一字，非凡聖所測。又云：見本性為禪。若不見本性，即非禪也。假使說得千經萬論，若不見本性，只是凡夫，非是佛法。至道幽深，不可話會，典教憑何所及。但見本性，一字不識亦得。見性即是佛，聖體本來清淨，無有雜穢。所有言說，皆是聖人從心起用。用體本來空，名言猶不及，十二部經憑何得及。道本圓成，不用修證。道非聲色，微妙難見。如人飲水，冷暖自知，不可向人說也。唯有如來能知，餘人天等類，都不覺知。凡夫智不及，所以有執相。不了自心本來空寂，妄執相及一切法即墮外道。若知諸法從心生，不應有執，執即不知。若見本性，十二部經總是閑文字。千經萬論只是明心，言下契會，教將何用？至理絕言；教是語詞，實不是道。道本無言，言說是妄。若夜夢見樓閣宮殿象馬之屬，及樹木叢林池亭如是等相；不得起一念樂著，盡是托生之處，切須在意。臨終之時，不得取相，即得除障。疑心瞥起，即魔攝。法身本來清淨無受，只緣迷故，不覺不知，因茲故妄受報。所以有樂著，不得自在。只今若悟得本來身心，即不染習。若從聖入凡，示見種種雜類，自為眾生，故聖人逆順皆得自在，一切業拘它不得。