of birth and death, 24
Buddha’s compassion for, 190–91
cause of, 46
from clinging, 305
drowning in, 81–82
of hell, 189
from misguided practice, 210, 296
rebirth and, 205
from seeking, 128
of sentient beings, 29, 285
of three realms, 158
tranquil extinction as, 308
from worldly pleasures, 22
Sumeru, Mount, 77, 301
Sun Wukong (monkey king), 307
supernatural powers, 51, 69, 209, 226, 246, 332n200
Supreme Vehicle, 19, 45, 82, 109, 250
Śūraṅgama Sūtra, 331n189
Sūtra of Consummate Enlightenment, 65
Suzuki, D. T., 8
T
Taensa (monastery), 18
Tang dynasty, 12, 20, 125, 226, 229–30, 239, 314
Tathāgata Seon (rulai chan / yeorae seon), 245–47
tathāgatagarbha (womb of buddhas), 94, 167, 216
tathāgatas. See buddha(s)
Tathāgata’s extremely profound meaning, 118
ten perfections, 46, 318n24
ten stages (bhūmi), 36, 70, 112, 209–10, 247, 248, 256, 273, 274, 321n63, 330n174
thirty-two major marks, 142, 149, 150
thought-moments, 298–99
thoughts, 99
arising and disappearing, 177, 282
buddha nature and, 179
conceptual, 38, 209
as deviation, 26
end of, 95
following, 158, 206
freedom from, 109
generating, 66
as illusory, 252–53
leaving no trace, 88
limits of, 21–22
neither clinging nor rejecting, 38, 39
nirvāṇa and, 263
and no-mind, relationship between, 196–97
outward and inward, differences between, 194–95
in practice, working with, 23
three bodies, 78–80. See also dharma body (dharmakāya); reward body (saṃbhogakāya); transformation body (nirmāṇakāya)
three great gentlemen (sandashi), 18
three hermits of Guoqing, 226
three jewels, 119, 162–64, 229–30
three mysterious gates, 49, 318n27
three poisons, 59–60, 194, 282
three realms of existence
as buddha land, 216
as mind alone, 198–99, 247
as one mind, 19
śrāvakas and bodhisattvas in, 287–88
suffering of, 158
transcending, 145–46
three time periods, 180, 252
awakening and, 182–83
empty space and, 27–28, 147
equanimousness and, 139
one-mind dharma in, 174
relinquishment in, 75
as unascertainable, 258, 294–95, 313
three trainings, 59–60
three vehicles, 98, 157, 253
buddhas and sentient beings in, 151
as provisional, 295, 298–99
refuge in, 163
spiritual capacities and, 45, 82, 95
transcending, 172
thus come one (tathāgata), meaning of, 156
thusness, 156
Tiantai, Mount, 225–26
Tiantai Zhiya, 226
tranquil extinction, 114, 275, 308
transformation body (nirmāṇakāya), 78, 79–80, 129–30, 141, 185, 286
“treasury,” 71
trichiliocosm, 180, 232, 307
twelve categories of scripture, 145, 163, 325n107
twelvefold chain of dependent origination, 281–82
Two Accesses and Four Practices Treatise (Erru sixing lun, Bodhidharma), 108, 135–36, 139
two extreme views, 21, 150, 175, 248, 330n175
abandoning, 102, 249
avoiding, 202
buddhas and sentient beings as, 155, 161
rejecting, 178
transcending, 62, 205
two truths, unifying, 284
U
ultimate realm, 34, 160
ultimate truth. See absolute truth
unconditioned dharma gate, 174–75
unconditioned path, 185
V
Vairocana Buddha, 79, 80
veiled consumption, 94
views
abandoning, 159
of differentiation, 277–79
discarding outmoded, 215–16
discriminative, 146, 161
distorted, 183, 184, 204–5, 208, 214, 217, 296
dualistic, 160
extreme, 150
freedom from, 155–56, 218
generating, 131, 143, 179, 180–81, 292
inside and outside, 159, 326n123
of nature, generating, 272
not giving rise to, 167
positing buddha mind as existent, 269–71, 332n192
relinquishing, 145
remaining oblivious to, 132–33
right, 59
six heterodox, 248, 330n175
staying removed from, 200
See also two extreme views; wrong view
vigor (vīrya), 193–95, 200
Vimalakīrti, 32, 33, 145, 205, 209, 215, 216, 284, 285, 329n158. See also Pure Name
Vimalakīrti’s Instructions, 108, 326n128
“Buddha Realm” chapter, 146, 148
“Dharma Gate of Nonduality” chapter, 141, 284–85
“Disciples” chapter, 275
“Mañjuśrī Inquires about His Illness” chapter, 273
“Mañjuśrī’s Questions” chapter, 145
void and quiescent numinous awareness, 55–56
voidness, 31, 288
vows, 33, 46, 51, 103, 189, 203, 318n24
Vulture Peak, 17, 66, 87, 270
W
Wanling district, 20, 125
Wanling Record (Wanling lu), 7–8, 125, 220, 283, 291, 316nn8–9
Way, 6, 47, 254
clinging to name of, 92, 139
deviating from, 25
difficulty of, 313
as everyday mind, 35
as fully revealed, 87, 261
harmful training in, 29
intuition and, 59
as not to be cultivated, 84–86, 90–91
opening eye of, 132
proper perspective on, 245, 259, 288
rarity of practitioners of, 31
silently conforming with, 118, 120, 121
training and learning, role of in, 216–17
turning one’s back on, 34, 52
types of practitioners of, 93, 94
Wei kingdom, 138
Weishan/Guishan Lingyou, 168, 233–34, 332n198
Weiyang/Guiyang school, 168, 234, 332n198
Weiyin Wang (Bhīṣmagarjitaghoṣasvararāja), 231
whole body (onmon), 3–4
wisdom, 116, 203
brightening, 182
of buddhas’, 52
cogitation and, 87–88
concentration and, 193
defilements as, 178
and foolishness, lack of distinction between, 250
four types, 78
higher training of, 59–60
illuminating, 159, 304
need for, 181
nondiscriminative, 269–71
numinous, 282
nutriment of, 50, 318n28
as obstacle, 58
and original nature, inseparability of, 32
perfection of, 222
reflective function of, 61
uncontaminated, 212
unobstructed, 306, 307
wisdom eye, 75, 136, 141, 181, 286
words and letters, 1, 19, 112–13, 163–64, 184, 208–9, 264. See also language
world systems, 160, 174, 260. See also trichiliocosm
worldlings (pṛthagjana), 144, 210
acknowledging, 101
attaining level o
f saint, 112–13
as discrimination, 102
presumptions of, 295
and saints, originally not different, 131–32
transcending sphere of, 145–46
true nature of, 98–100, 139
worldly dharmas, 22, 54, 55, 312
wriggling creatures, 58, 289, 306
wrong view, 35, 142–43, 167, 287
Wu, Emperor, 325n112
Wuzong, Emperor, 239
X
Xianglin Chengyuan, 268
Xiangyan, 245
Xinkong (abbot of Huangbosi), 17
Xitang Zhizang, 17, 18, 228
Xuanzong, Emperor, 229–30, 314
Xuedou Zhongxian, 191–92. See also Hundred Old Cases with Verse Commentary
Y
Yajñadatta, 262
Yama, 111
Yangqi/Yanggi, 13
Yangshan Huiji, 233–34, 245
Yangtze River, 125
Yanguan Qi’an, 229–30
Yongjia Zhenjue, “Song of Realizing the Way,” 95, 114, 163
Yoshitaka, Iriya, 8, 9
Yuanwu Keqin. See Blue Cliff Record (Yuanwu)
Yunmen Wenyan, 173, 268, 330n178
Z
Zen, 8, 11
Zeng Hui, 191–92
Zhaozhou Congshen, 50, 228
Zhi, Master, 208, 211
Zhigong, 112, 114
Zhimen Guangzuo, 268
Zhongling district, 19, 125
About the Contributors
SEON MASTER SUBUL SUNIM (b. 1953) is an influential Zen master in Korean Buddhism’s Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist order in Korea. He was first ordained in 1975. He founded the organization Anguk Seonwon in Busan in 1989 and opened a branch in Seoul in 1996. Over twenty-five thousand laypeople have taken part in more than three hundred retreats with Master Subul in Korea and around the world. Recently, Subul Sunim has served as the abbot of Beomeosa Monastery and as the Seon master at the International Meditation Center at Dongguk University.
ROBERT E. BUSWELL, JR. (b. 1953) is Distinguished Professor of Chinese and Korean Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities.
SEONG-UK KIM IS the Il Hwan and Soon Ja Cho Assistant Professor of Korean Culture and Religion at Columbia University.
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흔적 없이 나는 새
By Subul Sunim
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English translation by Seong-Uk Kim and Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
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Names: Subul, 1953– author. | Buswell, Robert E., Jr., 1953– translator. | Kim, Seong-Uk, translator.
Title: A bird in flight leaves no trace: the Zen teachings of Huangbo with a modern commentary / Seon Master Subul; translated by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Seong-Uk Kim.
Other titles: Hunjok opsi nanun sae. English
Description: Somerville, MA, USA: Wisdom Publications, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018023674 (print) | LCCN 2018038874 (ebook) | ISBN 9781614295525 (e-book) | ISBN 9781614295303 (hard cover: alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Buddhism — Korea. | Zen Buddhism — Korea. | Huangbo, –850.
Classification: LCC BQ656 (ebook) | LCC BQ656 .S8313 2018 (print) | DDC 294.309519 — dc23
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