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Ross Bolleter
“Toujijie were written to mark experiences of awakening. Dongshan composed just such a poem on the occasion of his own awakening when he glimpsed his face reflected in a stream as he crossed it. Taking heed not to seek it elsewhere, as if it were distant from myself, I now go on alone, yet I meet him everywhere. He is now exactly me, but I am not now him. You should meet in this way, for only then can you realize”
― Dongshan's Five Ranks: Keys to Enlightenment
― Dongshan's Five Ranks: Keys to Enlightenment
“Conceptual talk about the Way is like this, too. When we have seen deeply into the nature of words, statements about the Way, such as the captions of the Five Ranks, are no longer solely scripts that choreograph our changing relationship with the whole but are the dance itself. Formulations such as “Zen is a special transmission outside the sutras, directly pointing to the heart-mind of humanity—no words, no letters” have become a kind of credo among contemporary Zen students. Such credos dissolve as we realize that words and letters may be the heart-mind itself. And the sutras and their commentaries, too, may be the special transmission”
― Dongshan's Five Ranks: Keys to Enlightenment
― Dongshan's Five Ranks: Keys to Enlightenment
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