Zen texts seem to indicate a person(ality) exists in a 3 day sliding window. Is/was this a colloquialism, or is it a specific phrase? I know not if this interpretation stands on sand.
Master Ximu went up in the hall; a layman raised his hand and said, “You’re an ass.” Ximu said, “I’m ridden by you.” The layman was speechless. Three days later he came back and said, “Three days ago I ran into a bandit.” Ximu took up his staff and drove him out.
- The Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching Volume 2 translated by Thomas Cleary, #511
Four hundred and four diseases break out all at once. They'll be lucky if they're not seeing off a dead monk in three days.
- BCR Case 3 Note 2
Ma Tsu said, 'Do you identify with this action or detach from this action?' I took the whisk and hung it back on the corner of the meditation seat. Ma Tsu drew himself up and gave a shout that left me deaf for three days."
- BCR Case 11 Commentary
Three days later he again questioned Lo Shan, "A few days ago I received your compassionate instruction; it's just that I couldn't see through it."
- BCR Case 51
A certain monk who had been in the master's audience took his leave and went to live in a hut for a year. Later he came back and paid obeisance; he said, "A man of old said 'If you haven't met for three days, do not look upon someone as before."
- BCR Biographies, MING CHAO TE CHIEN (Case 48)
For the moment, let me ask you this: when you haven’t eaten anything at all for three days, can you be active?
- Instant Zen "Finding Certainty"
Words. The way is beyond language for here there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow
- Hsing Hsing Ming
Bringing this up because some users have spent days away and returned to be immediately addressed as their previous selves. Maybe I am too slow or dumb to perceive the testing of the returning posters...
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
Submitted February 08, 2019 at 04:23AM by thralldumb http://bit.ly/2Ge8gdf
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