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One day a monk Roya asked master Joshu Ekaku District: It is said that the Universe is pure and shows its original form. How then is it possible for him to show mountains, rivers and earth?
Ekaku Roya said The entire Universe is pure and shows its original form. How then is it possible for him to show mountains, rivers and the earth!
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Commentary Nishijima Roshi:
Roya Master answers the question of the monk, repeating his question. But his rhetoric is repetition. He said in effect that it is not possible to express the universe mountains, rivers and the earth as it is pure and shows its original form. The mountains, rivers and land are concepts and ideas used to describe the ineffable reality of the universe. It is always pure and shows its original form.
On the other hand, we can also say that the original form and purity of the universe are nothing but mountains, rivers and land. The four philosophies can help us solve this koan.
In the first phase, we have a Buddhist idealistic assertion, that the Universe is pure and shows its original form.
The question of the monk is in the second phase. It can see the purity of the universe nor its original form. Everything he sees, what are the mountains, rivers and land. This is the materialistic point of view. The answer
master Roya is located in the third phase, which is a synthesis of two views earlier. The mountains, rivers and earth do not exist: these are just labels that attempt to describe what is, ultimately, beyond any description and who is the original form of the universe clean. This original form is not a vague idea or a mind floating somewhere in space. This is nothing other than reality itself. These are the mountains, rivers and land.
The fourth phase is the reality itself. It can be seen as pure and original form as the universe, or as mountains, rivers and earth, but ultimately it lies beyond any description of this kind. We must live it directly. And the practice can directly experience the reality called Zazen.
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