Practice of Penetration about One’s Original Buddha-mind in Silent-Penetrate Seon

ABSTRACT

The purpose of Buddhist practice is attaining Buddhahood. Attaining Buddhahood means the perfection of personality and wisdom through enlightenment. There are much of teachings in Scriptures. For example, “all sentient beings have the Buddha nature” according to the Maha parinirvana-sutra 27. This phrase means full of Dharma-kaya in the universe, all sentient beings are equality and all sentient beings have the Buddha nature. Here we can looked around relation the view practice-enlightenment about Silent Penetration-Seon ＆ All beings posses Buddha-nature. First, the Self-awakening of the Original-Enlightenment applies to the Essential Body are all-pervasive with all beings. Second, the Solely for sitting-poster applies to the Tathata(眞如) are equality with all beings. Third, the Free itself of body ＆ mind applies to the Posses of buddha-genus with all beings. Silent-Penetrate Seon is formed in Song dynasty based on this phrase by zen master HongZhi. Silent-Penetrate Seon organized as follows : Self-awakening of the Original-realization(本證自覺), Revelation of Enlightenment(現成公案), Free itself of body ＆ mind (身心脫落) and Solely for sitting-poster(只管打坐). To put it another way, Free itself of body ＆ mind is embodiment of inward training our body and our mind in daily life, through the Sitting-samadhi(坐禪三昧). Because of Daily life is consider for training and act of enlightenment in Silent-Penetration Seon. It may be given as a conclusion that the training system of Silent-Penetration seon are the Self-awakening of original enlightenment, the Un-thought and the Solely for Sitting-poster. Here we have a program for Practice of Penetrate one's original buddha-mind in Silent-Penetrate seon.