Zhaozhou, from Cleary's book'o scholarship fail:
Ninety years ago, I saw more than eighty teachers from the school of the great master Mazu. Each of them was an adept, unlike the teachers today who produce branches and tendrils upon branches and tendrils. The generality of them are far from sagehood, and each generation is worse than the last.
How about Nanquan's usual saying that we should act in the midst of different kinds? How do you understand this? Nowadays yellow-mouthed punks give complicated talks at crossroads in exchange for food to eat, seeking obeisance, gathering crowds of three to five hundred, saying, "I am the teacher, you are the student."
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ewk book note index - The /r/Zen trolls, largely silent now, liked to say, "I am the teacher, you are the student". They were super upset by Zhaozhou's other statement, that instructions was like spitting in someone's face. Obeisance was a big thing for them too.
Which brings us back around to the question of what sort of teacher Zhaozhou is.
Submitted June 10, 2017 at 07:50PM by ewk http://ift.tt/2s8lMaJ
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