Subhuti, what do you think? Does the Tathagata have the physical eye?” “Yes, World Honored One. The Tathagata has the physical eye.” “Subhuti, what do you think? Does the Tathagata have the heavenly eye?” “Yes, World Honored One, the Tathagata has the divine eye.” “Subhuti, what do you think? Does the Tathagata have the wisdom eye?” “Yes, World Honored One, the Tathagata has the wisdom eye.” “Subhuti, what do you think? Does the Tathagata have the Dharma eye?” “Yes, World Honored One. The Tathagata has the Dharma eye.” “Subhuti, what do you think? Does the Tathagata have the Buddha eye?” “Yes, World Honored One. The Tathagata has the Buddha eye.
Subhuti, there is actually no such thing called a bodhisattva.
All phenomena are free from the ideas of a self, a person, a sentient being, or a life span.
If a bodhisattva says ‘I will transform the world into a Buddha world,’ then he is not a bodhisattva. Why? The Tathagata teaches that one who transforms the world is not the one who transforms the world. That is to transform the world.
If a bodhisattva realizes the Dharma of non-self, the Tathagata says this is a real bodhisattva.
1. What is created will perishThese three concepts are intimately related to another, and not so difficult to observe. What is more difficult to see is a fourth, related concept: emptiness.
2. All that are created come from something else.
3. These "something else" are the specific causal conditions that must be met for something to happen or appear. These specific relationships lead to the Principle of Causality. And since all conditions change, all creation will perish.
4. Because all things depend on other conditions, therefore all things are empty of their own, instrinsic nature. All the observed characteristics of anything, including people, are empty.
5. What is uncreated is unconditioned and cannot perish. The bodhi mind, which is formless and empty, is such an example.Questions:
學佛的目的，就是使我們的心在境界當中不受影響，仍能保持平定、寧靜。
The aim of practicing Buddhism is to free the mind from the influence of external circumstances and maintain peace and serenity within.
Some of the poems Ven. Jianhu mentioned in the Zen-7 Retreat:
見盧山瀑布題詩
穿雲透石不辭勞，遠地方知出處高
溪澗豈能留得住，終歸大海作波濤
--香雲智閑 & 唐宣宗
On Seeing the Waterfall at Mt. Lu
Penetrating the clouds and the rocks, you are not detered by the hardships
Haveing gone this far, you must come from a high place.
How can the rivers and streams contain me?
My place in to roam free in the great ocean.
--Master Xianyun & Emperor Tang Xuan Zong
塵勞迥脫事非常，緊把繩頭做一場。
不是一番寒徹骨，爭得梅花撲鼻香。
--黃檗禪師
Chill to the Bone
To be completely free from the burden of defilements
Is no ordinary undertaking;
Grab the rope firmly with all your might!
Only through the bone-biting chill of winter,
Will the plum blossoms
Smack you with their delightful fragrance.
--Master Huang Bo
學道之人不識真，祇為從來認識神。
無始劫來生死本，癡人喚作本來人。
--長沙景岑禪師
The cultivators never recognized what is real,
Because they always think of consciousness as the soul,
Which is the root of samsara since beginningless time;
They mistake the dummy as the original.
--Master Chang Sha
但自無心於萬物，何妨萬物時圍繞
--龐蘊居士If the mind does not cling to anything,
It doesn’t matter if you’re surrounded by everything.
--Layman Pang Yun
This offering is the fruit of many's work and care;
Reflecting on my conduct, "Am I worthy of a share?"
Be wary of the poisons, the foremost being greed;
Seeing food as medicine, I take only what I need,
Solely for cultivation, to realize the Buddha Way.
With gratitude I accept this offering today.
You used up all your efforts to penetrate the clouds and the rocks,Good cultivators, for the completion of this Zen-Seven Retreat, how does the last verse go?
Yet in an instant, turning back, you arrived at the source.
Having entered the great ocean of bodhi awareness you realize
That you’ve been swimming in the same place for endless time.
In one drop of water you see True Suchness;
All the rivers and streams flow from it.
The truth of emptiness, convention and Middle Way are replete in each thought,
The great essence, form, and function are complete in the One-Mind.
Your heroic nature finally manifest itself—Done—
Vowing to never rest until all sentient beings are free.
穿雲透石勞心力 忽爾回首到源頭
入大覺海方乃知 無始劫來原處游
一滴水中見真如 百千河川從此流
空假中諦念念俱 體相用大無不周
諸位知識，即今起七一事，最後一句又怎麼說法？
英雄本色今日現 未盡有情終不休
解—
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