Why did Bodhidharma come from the west?

Yuanwu's Commentary on the Case 9: Zhaozhou's Gates

When one who has investigated for a long time askes for more instruc­tion, this would be giving a ladder to a thief. In reality this matter does not lie in words; that is why Yun Men said, “If this matter were in words, are there no words in the twelve part canon of the three vehicles? What need would there have been for Bodhidharma’s coming from the West”

Note: Thank goodness that Yunmen clarified "no words and sentences" with a few words in two sentences! Otherwise who would have been able to resolve all this confusion?

Submitted August 03, 2017 at 09:24PM by NixonTheCrook http://ift.tt/2vtjEvz