Yunmen and his view

Master Yunmen cited the verse of a founder: ^Mahakashapa

Each separate entity is what the Buddhist teaching is originally about.

Master Yunmen said: “Walking, standing, sitting, and reclining
are not what the Buddhist teaching is originally about.

Nothing whatsoever— be it mountains or rivers, or the earth or your dressing and eating, day and night— is what the Buddhist teaching is originally about. What’s wrong with that?”⁴

Again, Master Yunmen cited:

The teaching is at root a teaching with out object.

BONUS
translators notes:

Each dharma is what the Dharma is originally about:
neither teaching nor no-teaching.
But how can there be in a teaching
both teaching and no-teaching?

The teaching (Dharma) is at root a teaching without object (dharma)
but the objectless teaching is nevertheless a teaching.
How could each thing be the teaching
if you now were attached to no-teaching?

⁴ In other words: it is okay if a staff is just a staff?

The Master held up his staff and said: “This isn’t ‘at root without object.’ ”

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Submitted August 12, 2016 at 11:43AM by mackowski http://ift.tt/2aNZqyN