ENGO’S INTRODUCTION
Seven piercing and eight breaking through, seizing the drums and capturing the banners, a hundred barriers and a thousand checkpoints, watching the front and guarding the rear, holding the tiger’s head and securing its tail even all these are not comparable to the veteran master’s ability.
The Ox-head disappearing, the horse-head appears — that also is not a great wonder. Tell me, what you do when a man of a transcendent experience comes?
See the following.
MAIN SUBJECT
Sansho said to Seppo, “The golden carp is out of the net! Tell me, what will it feed on?”
Seppo said, “When you have got out of the net, I will tell you.”
Sansho said, “The renowned teacher of fifteen hundred monks cannot find even one word to say about this topic?”
Seppo said, “I am the chief abbot and I have much to attend to.”
SETCHO'S VERSE
The golden carp comes out of the net!
Don’t say it remains in the water still.
It shakes the heavens and moves the earth,
Swinging its fins, lashing its tail.
It blows like a whale, raising great waves;
Then the thunder sounds,
and a cool breeze comes;
A cool breeze yes! A cool breeze comes.
Who in the whole universe knows this?
Are the seven piercings the seven consciousnesses, with the eight being the eighth consciousness which is the breaking through? Eighth Consciousness holds the Mirror Wisdom, and is Samadhi.
Submitted August 03, 2017 at 07:02AM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2u6jB9P
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