Is this what Zen Study is like?

At the time, a certain meditation teacher heard about the Zen patriarch and send a senior disciple to spy on his lectures. When the disciple didn’t come back, the meditation teacher was enraged. When they met at a major convocation, the teacher personally said to his former disciple,

“ I expended so much effort to plant you; how could you turn your back on me this way?”

The former disciple replied, “ My vision was originally right, but was distorted by teachers.”

This is what Zen Study is like.

Later, someone asked Xuefeng, “How is it when one’s vision is originally correct but distorted by teachers?”

Xuefeng said, “ Confused encounter with the founder of Zen.”

The seeker asked, “Where is one’s own vision?”

Xuefeng said, “It is not gotten from a teacher.”

Submitted January 21, 2019 at 08:05PM by yogiscott http://bit.ly/2AUmH20