Furong Daokai
Jap. Fuyo Dokai
| born: 1043 died: 1118 place: China |
| Chan master: Touzi Yiqing (J. Tosu Gisei) Chan disciples: Danxia Zichun (J. Tanka Shijun), 26 total recorded as masters |
| stories: Osho The Original Man, ch. 4 |
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
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| Dokai said: As soon as I get up on the seat to speak, I am already involved in the dusts. If I go on and freeze my eyes, it would just show a flaw. The special transmission in a single statement is taking in a thief who ransacks your house. Not losing the fundamental source is like a fox fond of its den. Therefore true thusness, ordinary and holy, is all dream talk; buddhas and sentient beings are expressions of assumptions. When you get here turn the light around to shine back, let go your hands and accept it – even then you still will not have escaped being like a cold cicada clinging to a dead tree, not turning his head when his crying ends. Dokai raised his staff and concluded: If you can get it here, it is all something set up by the buddhas. Even if you can spring up in the East and disappear in the West, open out or shut away freely, you still haven't even dreamed of seeing what was before the buddhas. You should know that there is one man who doesn't get anything from others, does not accept any teaching or command, and does not fall within the scope of grade or rank. If you know this man, your life's study is completed. Here Dokai paused and suddenly called out to the assembly, saying, "If you freeze your eyes any more, don't bother to see me." He is saying that if you still go on reading the scriptures and freezing your eyes, or meditating and freezing your eyes, don't come to me again. Come to me again when you have found your original man. I have described the man. I have given the indications and the qualifications of the man... --Osho The Original Man, ch. 4 |