A monk challenged Zhaozhou, "I've been hearing about Zhaozhou's stone bridge for a long time. Now that I'm here, all I see is this log."
Zhaozou said, "You see the log, but you don't see the sone bridge."
The monk asked, "What is the stone bridge?"
Zhaozou said, "It lets donkey's cross; it lets horses cross."
As a young student, Richard Baker habitually used to come just barely in time for zazen in San Fransisco. His teacher Shunryu Suzuki casually said to him once, "You must have many important things to do." After that Baker was never even close to being late.
Nanquan was on the mountain working. A monk came by and asked him, "What is the way that leads to Nanquan?" The master raised his sickle and said, "I bought this sickle for thirty cents."
The monk said, "I'm not asking about the sickle you bought for thirty cents. What is the way that leads to Nanquan?"
The master said, "It feels good when I use it."
QUOTE SOURCES: Essential Zen, 1994, by Kazuaki Tanahashi and David Schneider.
Wandering Ronin commentary: WanderingRonin is a multiple accounts alt_troll and self-anointed "internet guru" who stalks and harasses people who expose his self-certification scam and content brigading, including his desire to "lead the sub" (also nominated himself as a new mod) and then exposes his pattern of conduct in an attempt to attribute it to ewk. He wasn't kidding. He is only a little proud of his harassment. [Source: Ewk, Zen Community Gatekeeper]
Submitted March 10, 2018 at 11:02PM by WanderingRonin77 http://ift.tt/2FrD2Q2
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