Tao Te Ching
Huating Decheng 華亭德誠
820 – 858 CE
After intense study with Chan Master Yaoshan Weiyan, Decheng moved to Hua Ting and lived on a small boat. He semi-anonymously stayed in the background and passed as a very ordinary person. As an occupation, he took people across a river while—with discrete subtlety—teaching them his Chan Buddhist understanding. In a famous story, he triggered a student's enlightenment by pushing him off the boat into the river. After the students realization, Dechenbg told him not to think about him anymore and fell off the boat into the water liberating the student from the golden chains of hero-worshipping delusion.Eras
Chinese
Tang Dynasty 唐朝 (618 – 907 CE)Unlisted Sources
Quotes by Huating Decheng (6 quotes)
“A good sentence is a stake to which a donkey can be tethered for ten thousand aeons.”
Comments: Click to comment
“In the future, your hiding place should have no traces and where there are no traces, you should not hide.”
Comments: Click to comment
“refrain from giving rise to the idea of 'no traces' or absolute voidness within which you should not abide, for in that case, you would give rise to the idea of 'no traces,' both 'traces' and 'no traces' being in the realm of dualism and having no place in absolute reality”
Comments: Click to comment
“If you cling to the words with which you have learned to interpret the truth, you will be held in bondage by them and will never realize the truth.”
Comments: Click to comment
“You cannot expect to enlighten more than one or two men for Ch'an is not so easy to understand. It will suffice to enlighten one or two.”
Comments: Click to comment
“go to places where men have no chance of seeking fame and wealth because there only can you look for disciples who are either wholly or at least half bent on the quest of truth.”
Comments: Click to comment
Comments (0)