- A monk asked Yunfeng, “Is there any Buddhism on mountain peaks and sheer cliffs?” He said, “There is.” The monk asked, “What is the Buddhism on mountain peaks and sheer cliffs?” He said, “Monkeys climbing trees upside-down.”
Dahui said, “If people can accept and apply this, their lifetime’s study is finished.”
Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching, Dahui, Thomas Cleary translation
Comment: Essence and function expressed, truly a matter of life and death. As Touzi said to Zhaozhou, “One cannot go by night; it is necessary to get there when it’s light.”
Submitted June 11, 2019 at 06:11AM by kamasii http://bit.ly/2WVbV7S
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