“You must deeply perceive the true nature of yourself, the Buddha, and everything as being in accord with dependent arising. And you must have absolute faith that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas always respond to your prayers, as certainly as shadows follow form and echoes follow sound.”
Category: zen
“They will all necessarily become wild foxes.”
昧落商量轉失眞.
Flipping back and forth between and making calculations about being subject to karma and being in the dark about it they lose sight of the true.
A Sino-Korean Diamond Sutra Gatha Chant
geu-eum gang ban ya ba ra mil gyeong. bul
chwi eo sang yeo yeo bu dong ha i go
il che yu wi beop yeo mong hwan po yeong
yeo ro yeong nyeo jeon eung jang nyeo si gwan
Diamond Prajna Paramita Sutra. Not
dependent on appearances, and also not moving. Why?
All impermanent dharmas like dream phantom bubble shadow,
like dew also like lightning, should constructed like this perceive.
Burn down the hermitage (烧却庵)
這件事天知地知你知我知，千萬不要给婆婆知。
“Concerning this matter, Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know, and I know. Just be sure the old woman doesn’t find out!!”
“This old monk was first in line.” (Joshu in Hell)
崔郎中問。大善知識還入地獄也無。
Student: Can a Zen Master fall into hell or not?
師云。老僧末上入。
Master Joshu: This old monk was first in line.
不是苦心人不知 (If you do not exert yourself, you cannot understand)
苦心 literally: “suffer mind”, to make an effort, to “take pains” (Sino-Korean: 고심 goshim)
The Record of Joshu at CBETA
崔郎中問。大善知識還入地獄也無。 師云。老僧末上入。 崔云。既是大善知識。為什麼入地獄。 師云。老僧若不入。爭得見郎中。
Baizhang’s Fox at CBETA
One of the main reasons I wanted to track this down is to take a closer look at the question that is at heart of this story: 大修行底人還落因果. “Does a person of great accomplishment return to falling into cause and effect?” What is a “大修行底人”, and what does it mean to “還落因果”?
Different recordings of Master Uisang’s Song of Dharma Nature
This one is by Geumgang Seunim doing the chant one time. The pronunciation is a little clearer than in the one where she recites it 21 times (see below): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-DUdUSCVA Geumgang Seunim again, reciting it 21 times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n42qv8Whz-M A very clear recording from Dongbong Seunim (apparently this is from “Standard Buddihist Chant Song Collection Album […]
금강스님 (Geum Gang Seunim)
降魔眞言, 항마진언, hangma jineon, vanquish demons mantra
옴 소마니 소마니 훔 하리한나 하리한나 훔 하리한나 바나야 훔 아나야 혹 바아밤 바아라 훔바탁
[om somani somani hum harihanna harihanna hum harihanna banaya hum anaya hok ba-a-bam ba-a-ra hum ba tak