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The Poetics of Ch'an:Upaayic Poetry and Its Taosist(6)

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       not the interpretable meaning (neyaartha).

      ‧Rely  on  wisdom  (j~naana), not  on  [ordinary]

       consciousness (vij~naana). (11)

 

     Each of these guidelines redirects the focus away

     from  intellectual  abstractions  and  back  to  the

     original   experiential   core   of   the   Buddha's

     enlightenment.  The same point is emphasized  by the

     Buddha  in his parting  advice  to his disciples  to

     diligently   pursue   their   individual   paths  to

     awakening.

      And   so  the  stage   was  set  for  linguistic

     indirection   and   evocation,  summarized   in  the

     well-known four points of Ch'an, often attributed to

     Bodhidharma:

 

     ‧ direct transmission outside the Scriptures;

     ‧ non-reliance on verbal expression;

     ‧ direct pointing to the hear/mind(hsin);

     ‧ seeing  into one's  original  nature  (hsing) to

     ‧ realize our inherent Buddhahood.

 

     Properly  applied, poetry can satisfy  each of these

     requirements: it goes beyond the actual  content  of

     orthodox   texts,  it  utilizes   language   without

     limiting itself to sim---

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     (10) A.s.tasaaharkaa  Praj~naapaarmitaa  (The Wisdom

       that  has Gone  Beyond), as quoted  by Heinrich

       Zimmer  in  Philosophies  of India  (Princeton,

       1951), p.485.

     (11) Catuhpratisaranasutra  ( Sutra   of  the   Four

       Refuges), as quoted  by Donald  S.Lopez  in his

       introduction   to  his  edited  text,  Buddhist

       Hermeneutics  (Honolulu: University  of  Hawaii

       Press, 1988), p.3.

 

 

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     ple  denotation,  and  it  provides   a  species  of

     ostensive  definition  through  its  marshaling   of

     images.  Finally, by  means  of the  above  methods,

     poetry  provides  insight  into the inmost depths of

     reality.

      The mergence of Buddhism  and poetry through the

     common  thread  of enlightenment  was aptly noted by

     literary critic Yen Yuu in the twelfth century: