• Translated a short excerpt, short yet incredibly important understanding from teacher hong wen Liang’s lecture. After reading 300 pages, I understand how much he wanted to get this across to his students. I couldn’t translate the /// part, probably will need Soh Wei Yu expertise haha. May you benefit.
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    告诉诸位,迷在何处?如果把一个相对的色相,当作真正有一个色相在那里;而我这里呢,也是真正的有一个我在看到那个色相,这就是迷。而开悟就是假我的误认没有了。那里不是有一个相对的色相真正的存在,而是无相而显现那个样子。无而有的那个样子显现。而我这里呢,也是无而有的缘所生的存在而已,不是真实的有一个叫做‘我’的存在。能看的功能和所看的相,都是无自性对无自性,在缘生缘灭。这就是所谓的缘所生法,了无自性。把这个弄清楚了,一样看一样听,这一切就是法身,遇缘则显,即生即灭,变化无碍。
    Let me tell all of you, what exactly is delusion? If you take a form you experience, and take it as there’s a real form over there; while I am over here, concretely real looking over to that real form, this is delusion. On the other hand, enlightenment is when you do not wrongly take the fake self to be real anymore. Over there, there is no real form really existing in itself, it is actually “empty yet vividly present”. It appearance is “nothing there yet fully presence-ing”. While on this ‘me’ side, it’s the same, “nothing there yet fully presence-ing”, arising dependently on conditions, not that there is an “I/Me” here really existing. Seeing and Seen, both are empty in inherent nature, both arising dependently on conditions. This is what you call dependent arising, empty nature. If you are clear about this, seeing and hearing are all dharma, arises when the conditions are ripe, ceases when the conditions are not there, changing without any obstacles.
    没有见性的人,永远是我听到那个声音。我和声音是相互分开的,我(根)是跟外面的存在(尘),是永远相对而隔离的。这样永远没有办法成佛,也不是佛的好学生。如果有一个我在求佛法,我拜了会得到加持,我要成佛,我要开悟。以这样的方式来修道你就一直都是在修那个假我。结果会使到自己的我见越修就越多越大,离道愈远。
    Those who have not seen their true nature, it is always “I am hearing that sound”. The I and the sound are separated, I on the inside and the world on the outside, is always separated and against each other. If one experience like this they will never become a Buddha, they are also not a good disciple of the Buddha. If there is a ‘me’ learning the dhamma, praying that I will get blessing, I want to be a buddha, I want to get enlightened, using these methods to practise you will always be practising with a fake self. Consequently, you will have deeper delusion of “I”, deviating further away from the true path.
    正传的坐禅是那么的重要,能让各位自己去发现真正的自己。怎样去发现呢?不是“我”去知道,去发现这个不是我。如果这样做,那你已经拿一个假我想去发现真正的自己。
    The true dhamma and practise are very important, it will allow you to realize your true self. How to realise? It is not “I”realise, I realise that this is not a me. If you do that, you are using a fake self to realise the true self.
    那怎么办呢?——放任六根兀兀的坐。
    六根本来就是那么的实实在在,如如的在那里活动,这就是所谓的六般神用空不空。那么自然啊。这是必然的关系嘛。这就是说唯有在真正坐禅的当下,就会悟到我们的心量本来是很广大的,应用无穷。六根应眼见色,应耳闻声,应鼻嗅香,应舌知味,应身知触,应意知法,一切施为运动,皆是法身。六根本来毫无挂碍,无爱无憎,平等平等地随缘生灭,皆自然解脱。
    Then what should we do? Just sit and allow your 6 senses to be natural in their natural way.
    The 6 senses are always natural, alive in their “suchness’. This is what we call /// so natural. This is how it is! This means that only when you really sit and meditate, you will understand how boundless our mind is, with myriads of function. Because of the eye there is form, because of the ear there is sound, Because of the nose there is smell, Because of the tongue there is taste, Because of the body there is touch, Because there is a mind there is knowing, all actions and movements are the Dharmakayas. The 6 senses never had any attachment or disturbance, no desire or aversion, all equally arise when conditions mature and ceases when conditions gone, all naturally liberating itself.
    释迦牟尼佛亲自讲,如果你能够真正让万法来证明根本没有你,这样子老老实实的去坐禅,这样子去修持的话,只需要像蚂蚁从你的鼻头跑到你的额头这样短的时间,就胜过你用一个我去坐十年一百年。如果用自己去求法一百亿年都没有办法的啦,永远没有办法的。因为有一个“你”想要成佛啊!
    “只管打坐”这个法门,是正传的坐禅之法。坐的当下就是行佛威仪,就是佛的行履。没有妄想的当下就是佛的行仪,所以这个叫做大安乐法门。
    Buddha Sakyamuni personally said, if you can let the myriads dharma/objects to prove that there is no you, if you can simply just sit and meditate that way, if you practise like that, you only need the time that an ant takes to move from the tip of your nose to your forehead, this is more powerful than you using an ‘I’ to sit for ten years or a hundred years. If you use an ‘I’ to practise, you won’t get it even one hundred million years, it’s impossible. Because there is a ‘You’ who wants to become a buddha!
    So the method of “simply just sit’, it’s the true dhamma from true lineages. When you sit you are doing the buddha, doing buddha’s sacred work. Whenever you have no delusion, that moment you are doing a Buddha’s action, that is why this is call the dharma gate of great ease and joy.
    ~洪文亮 Teacher Hong Wen Liang.

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    Amy Fan
    Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏


    Yin Ling
    Amy Fan you are very welcome aunty 😁


  • Soh Wei Yu
    Yin Ling 大安乐法门 dharma gate of great ease and joy


    Yin Ling
    Soh Wei Yu thank you, I edit. Hehe







  • Soh Wei Yu
    quiescence is more like 寂静


  • Soh Wei Yu
    一切施为运动,皆是法身。
    All actions and movements are the Dharmakaya.

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  • Soh Wei Yu
    Also if you google, 六般神用空不空者:謂此珠具足天眼、天耳、他心、宿命、神足、漏盡通等神用,雖空而卻不空。
    so this means the six spiritual powers are empty yet not empty


    Yin Ling
    Soh Wei Yu I wanted to write the 6 magical senses are empty but not empty .. but it sounds stupid 😂







  • Soh Wei Yu
    Another explanation 【六般神用空不空。一顆圓光色非色。】 這個就是說明摩尼寶珠的德用,剛才講這是比喻,比喻佛性。


    Yin Ling
    Soh Wei Yu ya this is good. I can understand what he wants to get across but I can’t get it translate in English well. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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    Feel inspired so I translate a powerful paragraph. 😝correct me if I m wrong 😁
    Have a good day!
    万法來证明无我 - 洪文亮法师
    道元禅师曾說:学佛只是学自己,学自己是忘自己。 学自己就是不向外求,自己宝贵的
    身心就是道场。 忘自己又千万不可用「自己」忘自己。 那么,怎么修行呢? 不要起心动念去
    修什么殊胜的法,或者以我去求证万法。 眼見、耳闻、鼻嗅、舌尝、身触、意知,这些就是
    万法。 万法不断的变化,毫无痕迹,有若无,身心一点都不罣礙,哪裡需要「我」來指挥、
    判断才能見闻觉知呢? 以万法來将「我」殺掉,将这个「贼」殺掉,这是大安樂法门啊!
    <The Dharmas are proof of No-Self>- Teacher Hong Wen Liang
    Master Dao Yuan used to say, “Learning about the Dhamma is just learning about your self/Self, learning about your self/Self is to forget one self/Self. Learning about one self/Self is not the look elsewhere, your own body-mind is your monastery. Do not use your “self/Self” to forget about your “self/Self”. Then, how is it to practise? Do not have the intention to practise some special methods, or use the self/Self to get enlightened.
    Eye sees, ear hears, nose smells, tongue tastes, body touches, mind thinks, these are the dharmakayas. Dharmakaya changes incessantly, without a trace, neither exist nor not exist, without a disturbance to the body-mind, why is there a need of a self/Self to control, to be aware of seeing, smelling, feeling, knowing?
    Use the myriads of objects/phenomenas to kill the ‘self/Self’, when this ‘thief’ is killed, that is the quiescence of all dharma/ nibbana.

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    Soh Wei Yu
    Dao yuan is also known as Dogen


    Yin Ling
    Soh Wei Yu oh I see! Thanks! No wonder it sounds so much like that Dogen quote 😅😅


  • Soh Wei Yu
    Yin Ling hong wen liang’s lineage is japanese soto zen


  • Yin Ling
    Soh Wei Yu Ic . I should have just search for that famous quote 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️


  • Jachym Jerie
    It was a practice round. Waiting for more translations to come 😉







  • Dragan Milojević
    Very good! Just avoid duplication self/Self is very confusing and makes text hard to read. Zen buddhism makes no difference between self and Self anyway.


    Yin Ling
    Dragan Milojević For me it’s to express the small self and the awareness big self, both are important to be seen through, hence the replication.


  • Dragan Milojević
    I know what you wanted to say 🙂 they are important alltogether. Just on higher level of teaching master sees no difference between this two selfs


  • Soh Wei Yu
    Yin Ling makes a good point. Dogen emphasizes the need to see through the view of an unchanging Absolute, so it is not just 'self' that is seen through and dissolved but also the delusion that there exists an ultimate 'Self'. Similar to http://awakeningtoreality.blogspot.com/.../thusnesss-six...
    Dogen on refutation of an unchanging ultimate awareness, the eternalism of Shrenika: http://www.awakeningtoreality.com/.../non-duality-of...
    Also I pasted some excerpts by Shohaku Okumura on Dogen that deals with this topic very nicely: http://www.awakeningtoreality.com/.../dogen-on-bright...

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  • Yin Ling
    Soh Wei Yu “ In Genjokoan, Dogen used the word jiko(􀀂􀀁) and banpo(􀀄􀀃), and he said that conveying the self toward myriad things and carry out practice-enlightenment is delusion, and all myriad things coming toward the self and carrying out practice-enlightenment through the self is realization”
    I really like this too. Dogen has a way of bringing out the taste really well.
    Another one is the “seeing water from water“ … I think it’s from him too. Very powerful few words.
    The rest I cannot understand 🤣too cryptic 🤣


  • Dragan Milojević
    Is there any original quotation from dogen, in his personal words, where he makes exact distinction between self and Self?


  • Yin Ling
    Dragan Milojević nah, Dogen is a master.
    self or Self is just as expression.
    Most ppl stuck at Self hence why I express like that.
    If one is stuck at Self, they cannot be enlightened by the myriads object.
    Dogen words already indirectly pointed that out. It’s subtle but he is a master.
    It’s a masterful quote, it delivers the awakened state very beautifully with sparse words hence I wanted to translate it 😝


  • Dragan Milojević
    Well, that's exactly what i have said, there was no reason to opose me.


  • Yin Ling
    Dragan Milojević hahaha just chill. If you get it then it’s alright, dhamma is not for opposition, each one is just expressing vital points 🙂


  • Dragan Milojević
    If i get it? You repeat my exact words and then you tell me: if you get it? Interesting view 😐 i am going out of here, good bye.







  • Jayson MPaul
    Awesome work. Keep translating. If you ever want me to look over your translations feel free to DM me. I don't know Chinese but I know the insights he is pointing to 🙂


    Yin Ling
    Jayson MPaul I really think we need an AI who is enlightened to do all these translation work in between languages. 🤣thank you for that offer, I will try but have limited time, maybe a few sentences a day 🤣

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