"The inner truth which I discovered when I was living in a hermitage when I was twenty-six did not differ in the slightest from the truth when I met the Chinese Zen master Daoje and got his testimony of enlightenment, or right now, today. However, as far as complete illumination of the eye of objective reality and mastery of the supreme teaching and realization of the great freedom is concerned, I am as different know from when I met Daoje as sky is from earth. Believing in and acting on this, you should seek the day of fulfillment of the eye of reality....It is accomplished by the practice of single-minded devotion to nurturing it."
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"Already Rinzai was in Obaku's community, when he asked three times about the essential meaning of the teaching of the enlightened ones and was beaten each time, but still didn't discover anything. However, at one word from Daigu he was transformed....The change that took place at Daigu's was Rinzai's point of entry. Those who study and investigate Zen, past and present, all have entry sometime; however, if you stop there, you have gotten a little and consider it enough. After this, if you are not most earnest it will be hard to accomplish the complete illumination of the eye of reality....the truth is exceedingly profound, knowledge and wisdom extremely deep; the farther you go, the deeper they are....If you watch an enlightened guide, you realization will grow deeper and deeper."
Sayings of Bankei
in The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen
tr. and ed. by Thomas Cleary
Interesting parallels to Alma 32.
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