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Tao-sheng is known today for two theories. The first was that
good deeds do not automatically bring reward, a repudiation of
the Indian Buddhist concept of merit. The other, and perhaps
more important, deviation he preached was that enlightenment
was instantaneous. The reason, he said, was simple: since
Buddhists say the world is one, nothing is divisible, even truth,
and therefore the subjective understanding of truth must come all
at once or not at all. Preparatory work and progress toward the
goal of enlightenment, including study and meditation, could
proceed step-by-step and are wholesome and worthwhile, but to
"reach the other shore," as the phrase in the Heart Sutra
describes enlightenment, requires a leap over a gulf, a realization
that must hit you with all its force the first time.
What exactly is it that you understand on the other shore?
First you come to realizeas you can only realize intuitively and
directlythat enlightenment was within you all along. You become
enlightened when you finally recognize that you already had it.
The next realization is that there actually is no "other shore," since
reaching it means realizing that there was nothing to reach. As his
thoughts have been quoted: "As to reaching the other shore, if
one reaches it, one is not reaching the other shore. Both notreaching
and not-not-reaching are really reaching. . . . If one sees
Buddha, one is not seeing Buddha. When one sees there is no
Buddha, one is really seeing Buddha."21
Little wonder Tao-sheng is sometimes credited as the spiritual
father of Zen. He championed the idea of sudden enlightenment,
something inimical to much of the Buddhism that had gone
before, and he distrusted words (comparing them to a net which,
after it has caught the fish of truth, should be discarded). He
identified the Taoist idea of wu-wei or "nonaction" with the
intuitive, spontaneous apprehension of truth without logic,
opening the door for the Ch'an mainstay of "no-mind" as a way to
ultimate truth.
HOANG PO
Only come to know the nature of your own Mind and you will come to see that theres no self and no
other.