I see through everyone. If I’ve seen people, I know whether or not they have any enlightenment or any understanding, just as an expert physician recognizes ailments at a glance, discerning the nature of the illness and whether or not it can be remedied. One who knows all this only after a detailed inquiry into symptoms is a mediocre physician.
From Instant Zen, Lecture: Zen Mastery, p. 88, Cleary Translation.
Note: Foyan turns the idea of an expert upside down here. What physician today doesn’t make detailed inquiries and is capable of making an accurate diagnosis and subsequent Rx? An enlightened Zen master making a bad analogy here? I haven’t thought it out...
Submitted February 03, 2019 at 06:21PM by kaneckt http://bit.ly/2WGqpoW
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