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Old 28-08-2012, 12:20 AM
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Who determines what is Buddha Dharma?

A guy named Gregory related this story to me
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Wŏnhyo (元曉 617-686) was the great Korean master who espoused and popularized the Buddhist ecumenical syncretism of the Ekayana (One Vehicle) based on the Flower Garland Sutra (Avatamsaka, Huayan) and the Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana. As the legend of Wonhyo's great awakening goes, it came when he was traveling from Korea to China to meet with the great masters of the Tang to ask exactly this sort of question about determining the basis of Buddha Dharma. He specifically wanted to study the new translations by Xuanzang of the Yogacara sutras and shastras. When he and his close friend and traveling companion arrived at the seaport they discovered their ship had been delayed by bad weather and they themselves had no place to stay as the storm was hitting the town. They found a cave in the dark and got out of the rain but became very thirsty. They groped in the dark and discovered gourd bowls filling with rainwater. They drank and their thirst was gratefully quenched and they slept peacefully. However, in the light of morning they discovered they had slept in a roadside tomb and that their bowls were actually skull caps and what they took for fresh rain water was the water collected in the skulls that still had bits of brain and flesh attached. Due to the storm they had to stay there a second night and again became thirsty. Remembering his thirst quenched from the night before, Wonhyo attempted to drink from the same bowl but this time he wretched in the attempt, and his sleep was disturbed by ghosts and nightmares. As he pondered the difference between the two nights' experiences he had a great awakening to the meaning of mind-only (心量) knew the answer to the question "Who determines what is Buddha Dharma?"
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Old 28-08-2012, 12:48 AM
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Old 03-09-2012, 08:18 AM
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Imagine a man walking with a map to try and get somewhere. He has to continuously refer the real world with the map. If he looks at the map too long, he'll lose his place on it - if he looks at the land too long, he could lose his place on it.

Similarly I think you're looking too hard at the intricate and beautiful details instead of simply doing it and experiencing it. Enlightenment is all about the field practice.
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