{"id":11571,"date":"2023-02-23T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/?p=11571"},"modified":"2023-02-23T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:27:09","slug":"the-diamond-trap-and-the-fortune-teller-going-through-the-mystery-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2023\/02\/the-diamond-trap-and-the-fortune-teller-going-through-the-mystery-40.html","title":{"rendered":"The Diamond Trap and the Fortune Teller: Going Through the Mystery 40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>dharma<\/a> talk from February 19, 2023, I discuss Question 40 from <em>Going Through the Mystery\u2019s One Hundred Questions<\/em> and along the way include an episode from \u201cAlfred Hitchcock Presents\u201d from 1964 as well as a story about a visit to a fortune teller and asking if I will realize awakening.<\/p>\n<p>See below for the excerpt from the text.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vineobstacleszen.com\/going-through-the-mysterys-one-hundred-questions.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here<\/a> for much more about <em>Going Through the Mystery\u2019s One Hundred Questions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"5a8a9-0-0\">\n<h2 class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5a8a9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5a8a9-0-0\">40 Who can escape Yangqi\u2019s diamond trap?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"65ihn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"65ihn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"65ihn-0-0\">Yuantong asked: \u201cWho can escape Yangqi\u2019s diamond trap?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"bd4is-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"bd4is-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bd4is-0-0\">Wansong replied: \u201cPassed through.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"75usk-0-0\">\n<h3 class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"75usk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"75usk-0-0\">Linquan\u2019s Verse<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"7s88j-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"7s88j-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7s88j-0-0\">Passed through<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"139q8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"139q8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"139q8-0-0\">This great barrier, twisting around the heavens<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"fvusn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"fvusn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fvusn-0-0\">Lightning and flint sparks move slowly<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"ff6pa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"ff6pa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ff6pa-0-0\">Inevitably, they intimately see through<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"3a732-0-0\">\n<h3 class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3a732-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3a732-0-0\">Commentary<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"3oljt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3oljt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3oljt-0-0\">Yangqi Fanghui (Japanese, Yogi; 995-1049) was an important teacher in the Linji succession. As a young man, he was a tax collector, but got into trouble with his higher-ups, and so had to flee into obscurity. What better way to hide than become a monk?<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"3oljt-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"6e2jq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"6e2jq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6e2jq-0-0\">This obscurity didn\u2019t last, however, and he became the monastery director under Shishuang Chuyuan (also known as Ciming, 986-1039). Yangqi repeatedly asked him about the essence of the buddhadharma, and Shishuang repeatedly told him, \u201cYou are the temple director. Please take care of temple affairs.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"6e2jq-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"e01p2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"e01p2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e01p2-0-0\">After knocking his teacher into the mud, Yangqi finally got the message and realized great awakening. He founded a line of teachers that continued through Hakuin in Japan and still continues today in China, Korea, Japan, and the West. Yangqi\u2019s diamond trap is usually paired with a chestnut burr. We\u2019ll deal with the chestnut in the next chapter.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e01p2-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"f1ssc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"f1ssc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f1ssc-0-0\">Yangqi\u2019s diamond trap and chestnut burr is a teaching device to help people wake up. The \u201cdiamond\u201d here, \u91d1\u525b, could also be rendered \u201cvajra\u201d or \u201cadamantine.\u201d And \u201ctrap,\u201d \u5708, could also be \u201cring\u201d or \u201cpitfall.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"f1ssc-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"7uf4l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"7uf4l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7uf4l-0-0\">The main idea is that you find yourself in an incredibly difficult jam, a diamond trap, twisting and turning through the heavens, even. How could you get free?<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"7uf4l-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"ajvnv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"ajvnv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ajvnv-0-0\">The Cautionary Instructions for the Dark Gate, a Chan text from the fourteenth century, written by a Yangqi lineage monk named Yongzhong, has this promise for those who pass through the diamond trap, who swallow the chestnut burr:<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"ajvnv-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"cuf53-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"cuf53-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cuf53-0-0\">\u201cIn the Yangqi transmission, we use the diamond trap and chestnut burr to test mistaken and correct. You can pass through the Iron Mountain Enclosure, but not the diamond trap. You can swallow the great ocean, but not a chestnut burr. If you swallow one burr, you can swallow one hundred, ten million, one hundred million burrs without obstruction. If you can pass through the diamond trap, you can pass through one hundred, ten million, one hundred million.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"cuf53-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"88s23-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"88s23-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"88s23-0-0\">Maybe you can escape the Iron Mountain Enclosure that in ancient Indian cosmology surrounds the human world, or swallow the great ocean with some miraculous tricks or psychedelic trips. But even supernormal powers cannot free one from the diamond trap that makes flashes of lightning and sparks from a flintstone appear to move slowly.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"88s23-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"f44i1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"f44i1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f44i1-0-0\">The last line of Linguan\u2019s verse is like comfort food after a tough sesshin: <\/span>\u201cInevitably, they intimately see through.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"3lqk8-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"3lqk8-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3lqk8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3lqk8-0-0\">A good dharma friend might say, \u201cIt\u2019s okay, really, it\u2019s okay. Put your head on my shoulder and cry for a while.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"c1c3l-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"c1c3l-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"c1c3l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c1c3l-0-0\">Inevitably. Sounds like it might be a while.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"c1c3l-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"DraftEditor-paragraphElement\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4asi\" data-offset-key=\"5dehn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5dehn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5dehn-0-0\">How to be free of the diamond trap?<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"5dehn-0-0\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"5dehn-0-0\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/88\/2022\/07\/IMG_5956-3-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9809\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/88\/2022\/07\/IMG_5956-3-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>D\u014dsh\u014d Port began practicing Zen in 1977 and now co-teaches with his wife, Tetsugan Zummach Sensei, with the <a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vineobstacleszen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vine of Obstacles Zen<\/a>, an online training group. D\u014dsh\u014d received dharma transmission from Dainin Katagiri R\u014dshi and inka sh\u014dmei from James My\u014dun Ford R\u014dshi in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He is also the author of<i><a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Keep-Me-Your-Heart-While\/dp\/0861715683\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=KREZQHVEIX92&keywords=keep+me+in+your+heart+a+while&qid=1641742292&sprefix=keep+me+in+your+heart+a+while%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keep Me In Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri<\/a><\/i>. D\u014dsh\u014d\u2019s translation and commentary on <a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Record-Empty-Hall-Hundred-Classic\/dp\/161180891X\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=record+of+empty+hall&qid=1604329778&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans,<\/em><\/a> was published in 2021 (Shambhala). 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