One day a monk paid a visit to Tinh Khong (1091-1170), a Vietnamese Zen master, who was of the tenth generation of Vo Ngon Thong lineage, and asked:
-From old days it was talked about "direct pointing", what does that mean?
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Posted on Mar.30.2009 @ 08:39PM EDT by chontri
When one does not know what his Buddha nature is or what it looks like, but he tries saying something like this: - Buddha nature knows everything, or - Buddha nature knows nothing, or - Buddha nature is like this, or - Buddha nature is like that, or - Buddha nature is such, etc...
or when one is not awakened yet, but he tries saying something like this: - An awakened one knows everything, etc...
All of those types of sayings are just an assumption or presumption, no more no less.
ChonTri 03/30/2009
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