＜Zen Buddhism and Nestorianism Series 22：One's own teacher＞has been released on YouTube.
＜◆Zen Buddhism and Nestorianism Series 22：One's own teacher＞
One day, when Master DongShan LiangJie was conducting the annual memorial service for Master YunYan, a monk asked him: "What instruction did you receive from the late Master YunYan?" "Although I was there with him, he gave me no instruction." answered the Master. "It is neither for his moral character, nor for his teaching of Dharma that I respect him. What I consider to be important is that he never openly told me anything." stated the Master.
According to so called "Clementine literature," a series of documents written by perhaps multiple authors in the name of Pope Clement I, John the Baptist had thirty leading disciples. The first and most esteemed by John was Simon.
This time, let's take a look at the gong-an(公案) of "One's own teacher" and "The anti-Pauline characteristic in the Pseudo-Clementines"
【Thesis】 "A man can possess eternal life through accepting testimony of the Son of man and being baptized by him." (John 5:24)
【Anti-thesis】 But "The one who comes from the earth cannot accept the testimony by one from heaven." (John 3:32)
How then can a man possess eternal life?
【Synthesis】 "If you want to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, you can just go back to the word which was with God in the beginning (John 1:1) and certify that God is truthful. (John 3:33)"
When he said, "You are Huichao," Zen Master Fayan thrusted vivid Self in Huichao in front of his eyes.
