Furyumonji is a Buddhist revelation, however in general, zazen (zen sitting meditation) is more popular than the revelations in zen. I think that many people know zazen even if they haven’t experienced it…However this Furyumonji has continuous wordings as below.
不立文字 (Furyumonji)
教下別伝 (Kyougebetsuden)
直指人心 (JikishiNinshin)
見姓成仏 (Kenshojobutsu)
Well, as for these meanings…..if I roughly explain them, they are:
不立文字 (Furyumonji) = Something that cannot be expressed with words and letters
教下別伝 (Kyougebetsuden) = Something that cannot be told with books and textbooks.
直指人心 (Jikishininshin) = To observe your natural mind.
見姓成仏 (Kenshojobutsu) = To see the true nature of things and understand.
If you look for more information on the Internet, you’ll find detailed explanations.
When connecting all these meanings, it can be as follows:
You can’t tell the truth in words. It certainly isn’t done with books and textbooks. If you want to know the truth, you don’t ask someone else but you ask yourself. The answer is in yourself and when you find it, you’ll become able to see and understand so many things.
Doesn’t it sound like you are talking about the present world?
For example, you heard something from your friend about a country which you’d never been to. However you wouldn’t be able to get an exact image of what it looked like even if he or she talked about it in detail. Even if you searched on the Internet, in the book or on TV, you wouldn’t know the truth. You might’ve felt that you got to know about it after all the information you went though….However, imagine, then you decided actually go there and see for myself. Then you found that the things you’d heard were totally different from what you saw by actually going there. You must’ve had an experience in which you found the truth only when you actually went there. 成仏 (becoming Buddha) doesn’t actually mean when someone dies he becomes Buddha, but represents understanding everything as I mentioned in the previous God and Buddha part.
If saying it in a plain way, it’s to learn and experience not from the textbooks and so on but from nature… It means, at any rate, before making various excuses, you should try (experience) it, then you’ll understand it...
