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1、Dang Dang Doko DangTalks on ZenTalks given from 11/06/76 am to 20/06/76 amEnglish Discourse series10 ChaptersYear published: 1977Dang Dang Doko DangChapter #1Chapter title: Never Pretend, Even About Skulls11 June 1976 am in Buddha HallArchive code: 7606110ShortTitle: DANG01Audio: YesVideo: NoLength:
2、 96 minsTHE MASTER FUGAI WAS CONSIDERED VERY WISE AND GENEROUS, YET HE WAS MOST SEVERE BOTH WITH HIMSELF AND HIS DISCIPLES.HE WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO SIT IN ZEN. HE LIVED IN A CAVE, AND WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY HE WENT TO THE VILLAGE FOR SCRAPS.ONE DAY A MONK CALLED BUNDO, ATTRACTED BY FUGAIS AUSTERITIES
3、, CALLED AT THE CAVE AND ASKED TO STAY THE NIGHT.THE MASTER SEEMED HAPPY TO PUT HIM UP, AND NEXT MORNING PREPARED RICE GRUEL FOR HIM. NOT HAVING AN EXTRA BOWL HE WENT OUT AND RETURNED WITH A SKULL HE FOUND LYING NEAR A TOMB. HE FILLED IT WITH GRUEL AND OF OFFERED IT TO BUNDO.THE GUEST REFUSED TO TOU
4、CH IT, AND STARED AT FUGAI AS IF HE HAD GONE MAD.AT THIS FUGAI BECAME FURIOUS AND DROVE HIM OUT OF THE CAVE WITH BLOWS. FOOL! HE SHOUTED AFTER HIM.HOW CAN YOU, WITH YOUR WORLDLY NOTIONS OF FILTH AND PURITY, THINK YOURSELF A BUDDHIST?SOME MONTHS LATER THE MASTER TETSGYU VISITED HIM AND TOLD HIM THAT
5、HE THOUGHT IT A GREAT PITY THAT HE HAD FORSAKEN THE WORLD. FUGAI LAUGHED LOUDLY AND SAID:OH, ITS EASY ENOUGH TO FORSAKE THE WORLD AND BECOME A BONZAI, THE DIFFICULT THING IS THEN TO BECOME A TRUE BUDDHIST.TRUTH IS ONE, but it can be approached in many ways. Truth is one, but it can be expressed in m
6、any ways.Two ways are very essential; all the ways can be divided into two categories. It will be good to understand that basic polarity.Either you approach truth through the mind or you approach truth through the heart. So there are two types of religions in the world - both true, both meaningful,
7、but both opposite to each other - the religion of the mind and the religion of the heart.The religion of the mind believes that if you become thoughtless, if the mind is dropped, you attain to truth. The mind is the barrier; the no-mind will be the gate. Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism - these are the rel
8、igions of the mind. They are religions of deep analysis, religions of deep awareness, religions of enlightenment.Then there are religions of the heart: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism. They believe that the path goes through the heart, that the heart has to be dissolved into the beloved, into
9、 the Divine.The first religions are the religions of meditation. The word meditation is not exactly right but there is no other word to translate DHYANA into English, because the language has never known a religion of meditation so the word does not exist. All Western languages, in fact, have known
10、only the religion of the heart so they have the perfect word for that path - prayer. But for DHYANA they dont have any word so meditation is the only word that can be used. In fact, DHYANA means exactly the opposite; DHYANA means just the contrary. The word meditation comes from a Greek root medonai
11、 which means to think about. The word meditation means to think about, and DHYANA, which we are translating as meditation, means how not to think about; how to be in a state of no thought; how to come to a point where you are but there is no thinking; a state of no-mind, pure awareness. But meditati
12、on is the only word so we will use it.Zen is the culmination of the Buddhist search. Zen is the uttermost flowering of the path of meditation. The word zen comes from DHYANA. DHYANA became chen in China, then chen became zen in Japan. Remember this: Zen originated in India with Gautam Buddha. When G
13、autam Buddha attained to his ultimate enlightenment, the state of no-mind, the world came to know the path of analysis, the path of right thinking, the path of right remembering, and the path of how to dissolve all thinking by becoming more and more aware of thoughts. Just by watching thoughts, slow
14、ly, slowly, they fade out - you become simply a watcher, you are not identified with your thinking, you stand aside and you go on watching, just as if you are standing by the side of the road and watching the traffic. The mind is like traffic, very circular, goes on moving in a circle, very repetiti
15、ve, almost a mechanism. You go on doing the same thing again and again and again. Your whole life is nothing but a prolonged repetition, very circular. The mind is a mandala, a circle, and it moves. If you watch, by and by you become aware of the circle, of the vicious circle of the mind. Again and
16、again it brings the same emotions: the same anger, the same hatred, the same greed, the same ego. And you go on. You are just a victim.Once you become aware of the mind and you start watching it, the bridge is broken, you are no more identified with the mind. Once you are not identified with the mind, the mind disappears because it needs your co-operation to be there.These coming ten days we will be talking about Zen. But to understand it rightly, you
