Case #11 : Understand not Understand
A Zen master asked a group of people attending teachings : “Do you believe in absolutely right or wrong?”
Everyone said : “No.”
Zen master asked again : “Do you believe that everything has a beginning and an end?”
Everyone : “No.”
Zen master : “Do you think everything is what is looks like as it is?”
Everyone : “No.”
Zen master : “Do you think your thoughts are always the same?”
Everyone : “One’s thoughts are always changing.”
Zen master agreed and said : “If one’s thoughts are always changing, do you understand that thoughts are just illusions?”
Everyone : “Yes.”
Zen master : “Really understand?”
Everyone : “Yes.”
Zen master : “Then understand there is no understand. Understand?”[1]
[1] Many Zen teachings consist of conflicting answers and questions. Things are nothings. Nothing is no nothing. This doesn’t mean those words are empty, but they are means to make you thinking. Keep questioning, and keep an open mind. Understand you understand nothing, and the thought of understanding doesn’t really exist, but only in the mind of one’s head. But you DO understand what “understand” really is, right? Understand?
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公案11 : 心無住處
荷澤神會禪師[1]問眾人：「心有是非不？」
眾人答：「無」。
師再問：「心有來去處不？」
眾人答：「無。」
師曰：「心有青黃赤白不？」
眾答：「無。」
師曰：「心有住處不？」
眾答：「心無住處。」
和上言：「心既無住，知心無住不？」
眾答：「知。」
師曰：「知不知？」
眾答：「知。」
師曰：「今推到無住處立知，作沒？」[2]
[1] 荷澤神會禪師是六祖慧能高徒，也是實質發揚南禪頓宗的禪師。神會之後禪宗才慢慢轉變成以頓悟為主流。
[2] 這裡眾人都是以表象為題在作答，聽聞夠多的佛理，人人都能有一套看似無礙的哲學。但神會禪師要告訴眾人的是，當你在思考你了解的那剎那，心還是有住而非無住處。當超脫心常住這個殼後，才會頓悟何謂立於無住處。恒保無知。
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