source; don't set up standards on your own." Words must have that which is beyond patterns; phrases must penetrate the barrier. If your words don't leave their nest of cliche, you fall into the poison sea. -BCR
f your potential does not leave (its fixed) position, you tumble down into the poison sea. If your words don't startle the crowd, you fall into the streams of the commonplace. -BCR
In fact from ancient times till now, the patriarchs and bud dhas have never spoken for people. This very not helping people deserves thoroughgoing investigation. I always say, though I were to add a phrase as sweet as honey, when properly viewed it's just poison. If you bring down your staff across their backs and strike as soon as they blurt something out and push them away, only then are you helping people on an intimate level. BCR
See how he talks; yet undeniably he is dif ficult to understand. If the action of your eyes is alive, you will experience it like the superb flavor of ghee; if you are dead, you will hear it and turn it into poison. -BCR
(After his enlightenment with Yen T'ou) Hsueh Feng re turned to Ling Nan and lived in a hut. These monks were people who had studied for a long time. When he saw them coming, Hsueh Feng pushed open the door of the hut, popped out and said, "What is it?" Some people these days when ques tioned in this way immediately go and gnaw on his words. But these monks were unusual too; they just said to him "What is it?" Feng lowered his head and went back into the hut. This is frequently called "wordless understanding;'' hence, these monks couldn't find him. Some say that, having been ques tioned by these monks, Hsueh Feng was in fact speechless, and so he returned to the hut. How far they are from knowing that there is something deadly poisonous in Hsueh Feng's inten tion. Though Hsueh Feng gained the advantage, neverthe less while he hid his body, he revealed his shadow. -BCR
If you can penetrate all evil and poisonous words and phrases, even down to a thousand differences and ten thousand forms, then all conventional fabrications will be the excellent flavor of purified ghee. If you can get to where you touch real ity, then you will see Chao Chou's naked heart in its entirety. -BCR
This public case is the same as that of Lung Ya: Te Shan returned to the abbot's room; thus in darkness he was most wonderful. Yen T'ou laughs loudly-in his laugh there is poison: if any one could discern it, he could travel freely throughout the world. -BCR
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ewk note: What's this about? When I complain that Buddhist apologists don't study Zen, I'm talking about this kind of thing. Where's the books on Zen treatment of poison? Nope, you don't get one. If want a dozen books on why Zen Masters were a literary invention though, you're golden.
Submitted February 03, 2019 at 05:58AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2Ss05zE
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