Knowledge
and intelligence are not the Way. Many scholars mistakenly believe that the
knowledge and intelligence they have accumulated comprise the Way, and regard
themselves as people who have attained the Way. But when you take their
reference materials and annotations away from them, they fail to make an
account of anything. Such people are numerous.
The world
of ‘peace of mind’ (anjin) is the same.
When you have got rid of what you have been listening to and remembering so
far, what is left behind? Do you become insecure and helpless? If you have such
a frame of mind, it means that you have not truly met the Tathagata, and have not
really accepted the Primal Vow.
When a
person, after having discarded all his knowledge and ideas, still feels the
peace and warm security of the Primal Vow, he is a person who has truly
received the virtue
directed to him out of the Buddha’s Vow-Power.
Zuiken Sama
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