Pa-ling’s Secret Transmission
A monk asked Pa-ling, “What do the words ‘secret transmission in the east and in the west’ mean?”
“Are you quoting those words from the poem of the third patriarch?” Pa-ling inquired.
“No,” answered the monk, “those are the words of the master Shih-t‘ou.”
“It is my mistake,” Pa-ling apologized. “I am such a dotard.”
This is from The Iron Flute by Nyogen & Mccandles, Ruth S Senzaki.
Submitted June 18, 2017 at 08:25AM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2tfKV1g
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