By Michael R. Saso
This publication outlines different features of Tendai Tantric Buddhism. It summarized teachings which are practiced on Mt. Hiei in Kyoto.
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If you have the slightest thought about the dog having or not having Buddha nature, your essential life will be killed by that thought. Now, just show me: Dog—Buddha nature! Hyakujō and the Fox 2 THE CASE Whenever Master Hyakujō delivered a sermon, an old man was always there listening with the monks. When they left, he left too. One day, however, he remained behind. ” The old man replied, “Indeed, I am not a man. In the past, in the time of Kashyapa Buddha,1 I lived on this mountain (as a Zen priest).
Gutei’s One Finger 3 THE CASE Whatever he was asked about Zen, Master Gutei simply stuck up one finger. ” The boy held up one finger too. Hearing of this, Gutei cut off the boy’s finger with a knife. As the boy ran away, screaming with pain, Gutei called to him. When the boy turned his head, Gutei stuck up one finger. The boy was suddenly enlightened. ” Having said this, he entered nirvana. MUMON’S COMMENTARY The enlightenment of Gutei and the boy have nothing to do with the tip of a finger. If you realize this, Tenryū, Gutei, the boy, and you yourself are all run through with one skewer.
It makes no-gate the gate of Dharma. It is no-gate from the start. How can we pass through it? Haven’t you ever heard the old saying, “Things that come in through the gate are not family treasures”? What is gained by causation is continuously going on, forming and disintegrating. Such remarks are just like raising heavy waves when there is no wind or gouging a wound into fine skin. How much more ridiculous to adhere to words and phrases or try to understand by means of the intellect. It is exactly like trying to strike the moon with a stick or to scratch an itchy spot on the foot through the surface of the shoe.