From Cleary's favorite book of quotes: This is Chao-chou (778-897):
Ninety years ago, I saw more than eighty teachers from the school of the great master Ma-tsu. 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 Nan-ch'uan'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 students."
Note: I notice a lot of yellow-mouthed punks give complicated paste-jobs of Zen master texts, but won't ever discuss them, yet point at them as validation of their stances. They say "that is not Zen," and "that is not a Zen teacher".
Why can't they see with Chao-chou's eyes the degeneration in the /r/zen? Why do they hate what Zen Masters teach?
Submitted July 08, 2017 at 09:38AM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2tWFoiF
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