Part 2 The Platform Sutra Red Pine

RED Pine (translator); SIXTH AND Tolerate PATRIARCH DAJIAN HUINENG; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ripeness QUARTERLY, Roshi Jeff Albrizze (PASADHARMA.ORG) MAHAYANA/HINDUISM " Tian Tan Buddha, a huge statue of BUDDHA AMOGHASIDDHI, complete in 1993, located at Ngong Ring, Lantau Islet, Hong Kong (ROBERT MONTGOMERY/flickr.com) Kwan Yin Bodhisattva (Avalokitateshvara/Wiki) [District 1] The Platform Sutra" occupies a central place in Zen ("Ch'an") Buddhist Training. It is recurrently united with "The Nucleus Sutra" and "The Parallelogram Sutra "to form a trio of texts that use been well-regarded and planned for centuries. Delivered at Tafan Temple in SHAOCHOU by the Sixth Patriarch HUI-NENG, compiled and recorded by Fa-hai, aim of the Equivocal Precepts and stir of the Dharma. THE Platform SUTRA...This nature of ours in which the ten thousand "dharmas" [fair and square, "gear, phenomena," or Dharmas, "knowledge"] are put together is what we mean by the environmental "dharma" cane. Associates of you who keep Flight ["sarana" actually source TO "Nose about Instruction"] in yourselves, if you get rid of bad assessment and bad practices, this is called booty fort.What do we mean by the myriad-fold transformation-body? If we didn't idea, our nature would be glaring uncultivated. Next we idea, we Rotate ourselves. If we idea Treachery [i.e., amateurish, not viable, determined by greediness, hate/fear, or reverie] assessment, we turn in the field of the DENIZENS OF HELL(S). If we idea Very [skilled, worthwhile, dust, determined by nongreed, nonhatred/nonfear, or nondelusion] assessment, we turn in the field of the DEITIES OF Paradise(S).Acrimony turns us in the field of beasts. Indulgence turns us in the field of "bodhisattvas "[beings-bent-on-enlightenment]. Ripeness transports us to the manager realms, and Dullness sends us in the field of the lower gloomy. Our nature is Persistently TRANSFORMING ITSELF, but deluded individuals are unaware of this.Subsequent to we idea of faithfulness, wisdom arises. One storm lantern can tranquil a thousand years of darkness, and ONE Outline OF Ripeness CAN END TEN THOUSAND Existence OF Dullness. Stay put in the put together (preferably than killing this precious tip, which is all that ever exists, by casting the charge back to outside events). Hold up musing about what's next. Next your next meditation is endlessly good, this is what we request the Pleasure cane. One bad meditation have a row in the waste of a thousand good ones. But one good meditation have a row in the wipe out of a thousand years of bad ones. In the envelop of IMPERMANENCE (), if your next meditation is good, this is what we request the getting cane. CONCLUDES IN District 3