Nanquan asked Huangbo, “’When concentration and insight are learned equally, you can see the Buddha-nature clearly’—what is the principle here?”
Huangbo said, “One only gets it when not leaning on anything twenty-four hours a day.”
Nanquan asked, “Is this your view?”
Huangbo said, “I don’t presume.”
Nanquan said, “Never even mind the fee for soup and water for now—who will you have pay the cost of footgear?”
Huangbo stopped.
Dahui remarked, “Haven’t you read the saying—‘When you meet a swordsman on the road, you’d better show your sword; don’t present a poem to someone who’s not a poet.’”
Note: I don't think I've ever seen this exchange before. This book had some gems.
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Submitted June 14, 2017 at 07:53PM by koancomentator http://ift.tt/2rw6OXM
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