Doushuai Congyue
Doushuai Congyue
Dates uncertain
Doushuai Congyue is recorded in the historiography of the late-Tang / Song-period Chan transmission network as a transmission figure in its lineage. The surviving record preserves his place in the line; little distinctive doctrinal material from his teaching is preserved in modern scholarship[1].
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Disciples of Doushuai Congyue
Teachers and lineage of Doushuai Congyue
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Teachings
Tosotsu built three barriers and made the monks pass through them. The first barrier is studying Zen. In studying Zen the aim is to see one's own true nature. Now where is your true nature? Secondly, when one realizes his own true nature he will be free from birth and death. Now when you shut the light from your eyes and become a corpse, how can you free yourself? Thirdly, if you free yourself from birth and death, you should know where you are. Now your body separates into the four elements. Where are you? Mumon’s comment: Whoever can pass these three barriers will be a master wherever he stands. Whatever happens about him he will turn into Zen. Otherwise he will be living on poor food and not even enough of that to satisfy himself. An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.
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Master Record Sources
Doushuai Congyue
Linji
- koan_refsChart of the Chan Ancestors
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- nameZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Doushuai Congyue
- teachersZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation
Huitang Zuxin