By Venerable Jing Hui
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I think these four formulae, as directly taught by Bodhidharma, are 29 very important. In addition, thereafter, they came to be the very source of all the varied methods of training in the Chan tradition. At the time when Master Tan Lin wrote the preface, he realized that what Bodhidharma had taught in terms of the four formulae was truly practical. Now let us roughly analyze the formulae so as to see how Bodhidharma taught us to begin our training. Let us first come to “Facing a wall is the way to pacify the Mind”.
Doing so can only bring about limited results. If while giving we do not cling to the form, an infinite result will take place. ” The third formula is, “not to cause others to doubt is the way to be congenial to them”; this is what Bodhidharma admonished masters and preachers to do. What does this admonishment entail? It is just the same as that vowed by Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, that is: to “be congenial to all sentient beings”. How then can we put it into action? We should live what we are taught, by “not causing others to doubt”.
Why? Because any attachment itself represents thinking in terms of personal desire; with such thinking comes a one-sided perspective that, in turn, deepens the will of attachment. There are just two categories of attachment; the first, “clinging to the sense of ‘I’, and the second, clinging to the Dharma” or “clinging to the ego and the Dharma”. As sentient beings we have paid a great deal of attention to the physical body which, itself, is made up of five Panca-Skandhas (aggregates). We think it is very dear to us.