➤ Later in his life when telling of events during this period of study with many teachers he says that he was not as enthusiastic about the practice of sitting meditation as some others. When others wanted to do sitting meditation all night, Dahui wanted to stretch out his legs and sleep. Dahui tells this story about himself to make a positive point: it was not special devotion to sitting meditation that eventually got him to awakening, but never letting his doubt-filled investigation drop. Dahui makes the same point when he says in another sermon, “I studied Chan for seventeen years. In my tea, in my rice, when I was happy, when I was angry, when I was still and quiet, when I was disturbed (luan), I never once let myself be interrupted.”
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1. What is this 'doubt-filled investigation' Dahui talks about?
2. 'I never once let myself be interrupted', what is this interruption Dahui talks about?
Submitted August 12, 2017 at 04:31PM by 3DimenZ http://ift.tt/2wCY3iH
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