峰一日推土車次、祖展脚在路上坐。峰云、請師收足。祖云、已展不 收。峰云、已進不退。乃推車碾過祖脚損。歸法堂、執斧子。云、適 來碾損老僧脚底出來。峰便出、於祖前引頸。祖乃置斧。
Once, as Yinfeng was pushing a cart of soil, (he encountered) Mazu sitting on the pathway, with his legs stretched out. Yinfeng said, “Master, please fold together your legs (so that I can pass).”
Mazu said, “They are already stretched out, and I am not going to fold them together.”
Yinfeng said, “I am already moving forward, and I am not going to step back.”
Then he pushed the cart and run over Mazu’s legs, thereby injuring them.
Later Mazu went back to the Dharma hall, holding an ax in his hands. He told (the congregation), “The person who earlier injured my legs, (I want you to) come out.”
Yinfeng stepped out, came in front of the Mazu, and stretched out his neck. Mazu then put the ax away.
[Cheng-chien, Sun-Face Buddha]
What do you see - stubbornness, reconciliation? violence, mercy? the profound, the mundane? Zen, Buddhism? both, neither, neither both nor neither, both both and neither, none of the above, all of the above?
"How will you explain the sentence, 'As soon as there is assertion and denial, the mind is lost in confusion?"
If you want me to put the ax away, stretch out your neck.
Should I have faith that you will do the same?
Submitted January 01, 2018 at 02:57AM by essentialsalts http://ift.tt/2CgzjDc
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