to being of-the-world.
3." The full-word teaching " alone avoids all of
the above pitfalls. Thus it is deemed "the
final good" in which there is no attempt to
understand or make sense of not dwelling in
non-attachment. One is then able to re-enter
the world with a combination of wisdom and
compassion.The extremes of over-intellectuali-
zing and anti-intellectualization are both
avoided.
This same three-fold process is reflected in the
poetic expressions of Ch'an practitioners. In each
case we can see a re-enactment of " a deer leaping
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times and getting out of the net" to become "an
enlightened one beyond confinement."(40) Most
especially, this signals an end to self-confinement:
To say the present mirror awareness is one's own
Buddha is words of measurement, words of
calculation-it is like the crying of a jackal.
This is still being stuck as in glue at the
gate, Originally you did not acknowledge that
innate knowing and awareness are your own
Buddha, and went running elsewhere to seek
Buddha. So you needed a teacher to tell you
about innate knowing and awareness as a medicine
to cure this disease of hastily seeking outside.
Once you no longer seek outwardly, the disease
is cured and it is necessary to remove the
medicine. If you cling fixedly to innate knowing
awareness [level two; the Ch'an of Emptiness],
this is a disease of meditation. Such is a
thoroughgoing disciple; like water turned to
ice, all the ice is water, but it can hardly be
expected to quench thirst.(41)
The reference to stagnation at the gate is
interesting by way of comparison to Lao Tzu's