Thursday, 6 June 2019

The Real Shobogenzo: What Twenty Years of Cultivation Gets You

Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:

238.  Master Jinfeng said to an assembly, “Twenty years ago I had an indulgent heart; twenty years later I have no indulgent heart.”  A monk asked, “How was it having an indulgent heart twenty years ago?” 

[Jinfeng] said, “When asked about the ordinary, I answered about the ordinary; when asked about the holy, I answered about the holy.”  The monk said, “How is it having no indulgent heart twenty years later?” 

[Jinfeng] said, “When asked about the ordinary, I don’t answer about the ordinary; when asked about the holy, I don’t answer about the holy.”

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ewk note: Cultivation! Or maybe senility! Hooray! Lots of people are curious about what Zen practice gets you, and now we know... who here cultivates Zen?



Submitted June 07, 2019 at 11:05AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2WrMfjV

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