Expression Channel

Local manifestation@present

                    ➥ true voice (Vraie Voix/Voie 🢥 自然語音 / 正道、常道)

                    ➥ true will (I ॐ)

                    ➥ apocalypsis [from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), from ἀπό (apó,                          “away”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “cover”)]

                    ➥ fluidity (Eau Vive)

Context: intrication/quantum entanglement

無門關 Wúménguān ≍ 舞門關 Wǔménguān ≍ Pas de Deux (Dance Duet/None-Two)

                                                             ➥ Dance gate     ➥ 雙舞/兩步 (≍ Paso Doble)

無門關

Gateless Gate 16

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十六　鐘聲七條

　　雲門曰。世界恁麼廣闊。因甚向鐘聲裏披七條。

【無門曰】

　　大凡參禪學道。切忌隨聲逐色。縱使聞聲悟道見色明心。也是尋常。殊不知。衲僧家騎聲蓋色。頭頭上明。著著上妙。然雖如是且道。聲來耳畔。耳往聲邊。直饒響寂雙忘。到此如何話會。若將耳聽應難會。眼處聞聲方始親。

【頌曰】

　　會則事同一家　不會萬別千差　不會事同一家　會則萬別千差

Gateless Gate (Mumonkan, Wumenguan) #16

The Sound of the Bell and the Seven-Panel Robe

GG16a

Personnel

雲門禅師, 雲門文偃 Yúnmén Wényǎn (Ummon Bunen, 864-949, 13th gen)

a disciple of 雪峰义存 Xuěfēng Yìcún

Case (Yamada)

Yunmen said:

"The world is vast and wide like this. Why do we put on our seven-panel robe at the sound of the bell?"

無門 Comment (Yamada)

Generally speaking, in practising and studying Zen, it is most detestable to follow sounds and pursue colours.

Even though you may become enlightened through hearing sounds and come to realize your mind by seeing colours, that is the ordinary way of things.

People do not know that for real Zen monks when they are riding on sounds and becoming one with colours, everything is clear, moment by moment, everything is full of wonder, action after action.

When you hear a sound, however, just tell me, does the sound come to the ear or the ear goes to the sound?

• Even though you have extinguished both sound and silence, what will you realize here?
• If you hear with the ear, you cannot realize it.
• When you hear with the eye, for the first time it will become intimate.

無門 Verse (Yamada)

With realization, all things are of one family;

Without realization, everything is separate and different.

Without realization, all things are of one family;

With realization, everything is separate and different.

Ummon asked:

"The world is such a wide world, why do you answer a bell and don ceremonial robes?"

Mumon’s comment: When one studies Zen one need not follow sound or colour or form. Even though some have attained insight when hearing a voice or seeing a colour or a form, this is a very common way. It is not true Zen. The real Zen student controls sound, colour, form, and actualizes the truth in his everyday life.

Sound comes to the ear, the ear goes to sound. When you blot out sound and sense, what do you understand? While listening with ears one never can understand. To understand intimately one should see sound.

• When you understand, you belong to the family;
• When you do not understand, you are a stranger.
• Those who do not understand belong to the family,
• And when they understand they are strangers.