Feb 4, 2017
a comic i made for @mattreynoldstreats world building class, based on hui-nengâs gatha from platform sutra.
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a comic i made for @mattreynoldstreats world building class, based on hui-nengâs gatha from platform sutra.
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Records of the Transmission of the Lamp
Records of the Transmission of the Lamp
I have the first three volumes of this 30-volume work, âconsisting of putative biographies of the Chan (or Zen) patriarchs and other prominent Buddhist monks. It was produced in the Song dynasty by Shi Daoyuan.â (Wikipedia). The âLampâ in the title refers to the Dharma, the teachings of Buddhism.
Volumes 1 to 3 are devoted to the history of Indian Buddhism; the history of Buddhism in China startsâŚ
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The Gatha of Truth and Falsehood and Movement and Stillness: Nothing that exists is true, donât think what you see is true if you think you see the true, what you see is surely false if you want to find the true, the mind free of the false is true unless your mind forsakes the false, nothing is true where true canât be. Living things know how to move, lifeless things stay still those who practice staying still resemble motionless lifeless things to see what truly doesnât move in movement find what doesnât move what doesnât move is what doesnât move, lifeless things have no buddha seeds. If you can perceive its attributes, the ultimate truth doesnât move if you can realize this, you will see how reality works all you students of the Way be relentless and concentrate donât stand at the entrance of the Mahayana clinging to views about birth and death. If those before you are ready, tell them the Buddhaâs teaching and if they arenât truly ready, bow and tell them to be good thereâs nothing to argue about in this teaching, those who argue lose sight of the Way clinging to blindness arguing about teachings, they lead their nature into birth and death.
The Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng (780) compiled by Fa-Hai
Everyoneâs physical body is a city. Your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin are the cityâs gates. These five gates are on the outside, and on the inside is the gate of the intellect. Your mind is the kingdom, and your nature is the king. When your nature is there, so is the king. When your nature is gone, the king is gone too. When your nature is present, your body and mind are present. When your nature is absent, your body and mind cease to exist. The Buddha is a creation of your nature. Donât look outside your body. When youâre blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When youâre aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.â
The Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng (780) compiled by Fa-Hai
The mind is the bodhi tree the body is the mirror's stand the mirror itself is so clean dust has no place to land.
The Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng (780) compiled by Fa-Hai
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Buddhist Messages in Film: Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is the story of a young man from humble beginnings who happens to have a genius level intellect. His genius is discovered and he makes some choices about what path he wants to take in life. I see an interesting thing in Good Will Hunting. There is a Zen story that it lines up with very well. Hui neng was the Sixth Zen Patriarch. He put forth the idea that enlightenment can come upon us suddenly because we all have Buddha Nature. His story and teachings are recounted in the Platform Sutra. Will Hunting did several low paying jobs with no real direction in life. Hui neng was a poor illiterate commoner in China. Will became took a job as a janitor at MIT because he was attracted to education and learning. Hui neng became attracted to Buddhism when he heard a monk reciting the Diamond Sutra. He travelled to the monastery that was run by the fifth Zen patriarch, Hongren. He moved in there and got a job helping to take care of the monastery, chopping wood and pounding rice. Will comes to a turning point when a famous math Professor puts an unsolvable equation on the wall as a challenge to his students. None of his students can solve it. Will becomes inspired and solves the equation. He intends to solve it anonymously, but the Professor catches him. Hui neng comes to a turning point when Hongren challenges all of his students to compose a verse describing enlightenment. Only one of his students, Shen-hsiu, makes an effort. He writes on the wall of the monastery: "The body is the bodhi tree. The heart-mind is like a mirror. Moment by moment wipe and polish it, Not allowing dust to collect." Hongren tells Shen-hsiu to try harder. Hui neng decides to compose his own verse. With help from someone (remember, he is illiterate) Hui neng writes his response on the wall next to Shen-hsiu's answer. He writes it anonymously. His response is: "Bodhi originally has no tree. The clear and bright mirror also has no support. Buddha-nature is constantly purifying and clearing. Where could there be dust?" Not only did Hui neng give a good answer, he also tore apart the answer that Shen-hsiu had given. Like the Professor, Hongren is able to discern who wrote this verse. Also like the Professor, he sees great potential in this young man. In Good Will Hunting, Will struggles throughout the film with the decision of what to do with his life. In the end, he goes out into the world to find his own way, leaving his mentor behind. When Hongren notices the great insights that Hui neng has, he declares him the sixth patriarch, a Zen master and the successor to his lineage. Hui neng leaves the monastery and goes out into the world to find his own way, leaving his mentor behind. In both cases, the mentor saw huge potential in the student. There's a lot more going on in each of these stories, but I wanted to focus on the parallels which, to me, are quite striking. The part about writing on the wall is so similar that it makes me wonder if the filmmakers knew anything about the story of Hui neng.