The most wonderful sayings are all temporary expedients of Buddha. What is essential is to stop—don’t rely on anything, or take in the words of others for intellectual understanding, discriminating near and far, forging superficial falsehoods, memorizing the idle words and long talks of others—all of this is conjectural thought.
Not even standing on your own, you carry a corpse around all the time, wearing stocks and chains, traveling five hundred or even a thousand miles to come here and stand in front of me, as if you lacked the way of Chan—‘Master, explain for us, instruct us!’
What I am aiming at for the time being is for you to put down your heavy burden, take off your stocks and chains, to be decent people. Do you consent? If you consent, then stay. If not, go off wherever you will. Fare well. Good bye.
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ewk note: Travel is way easier than it use to be, but the people inclined to do it are no more interesting now then they were in Deshan's day. As if you lacked... I mean, come on... getting yelled at by an old guy is just embarrassing. If not, go off. How polite is that?
Submitted January 09, 2019 at 10:19AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2TA049V
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