Shoushan said to the assembly:
"If you attain at the first phrase, you will be teacher of buddhas and patriarchs.
If you attain at the second phrase, you will be teacher of humans and gods.
If you attain at the third phrase, you cannot even save yourself."A monk asked, "At which phrase did you attain?"
Shoushan said, "The moon sets; midnight, going through the marketplace."
from the commentary:
In Zhuangzi's volume Nurturing Life, it says that Bao Ding, butchering an ox for Lord Wen Hui, said, "The joints have spaces, and the cleaver's edge has no thickness. With no thickness it enters where there's space; as the cleaver floats easily, there is always extra room. Thus, after using it for nineteen years, the cleaver is still as sharp as it was when it is just came from the whetstone."
Lord Wen Hui said, "Great! Having heard the words of Bao Ding, I've found how to nurture life therein." These two things versify "The moon sets; midnight, going through the marketplace." The endless continuous stretch of the ultimate Way is like the water clock minutely moving the pointer; helping people with naked heart is like letting the cleaver play freely and leaving the finding of the jewel to Formless.
Submitted September 14, 2017 at 12:51AM by KeyserSozen http://ift.tt/2xlqdBj
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