A monk asked Pa Ling, "What is the school of Kanadeva?"
Pa Ling said, "Piling up snow in a silver bowl."
Cast off, beget. Gathered and transformed. Have you fuel for flames to heat, or salience in extrapolation?
Oh! and yet, there are severely uncountable differences in all places. How can comprehension be opposed to coherence? Not just in words themselves, at least.
...[when] the honorable Kanadeva... met the fourteenth Patriarch, the honorable Nagarjuna (who presented a bowl of water to him), he put a needle into the bowl: Nagarjuna esteemed his capacity, transmitted the Buddha Mind School to him, and invested him as the fifteenth Patriarch.
... In Kanadeva's day the heretics impounded the bell and drum... At this time the honorable Kanadeva knew that the Buddhist Teaching was in trouble, so he made use of his supernatural powers to ascend the bell tower and ring the bell, for he wanted to drive out the heretics.
Soon one of the heretics called out, "Who is up in the tower ringing the bell?"
Kanadeva said, "A deva."
The heretic asked, "Who is the deva?"
Kanadeva said, "I."
The heretic said, "Who is 'I'?"
Kanadeva said, "'You' is a dog."
The heretic asked, "Who is the dog?"
Kanadeva said, "The dog is you."
...the heretic realized he was beaten, so he submitted and himself opened the door of the bell tower, whereupon Kanadeva came down from the tower holding a red flag [signifying he was the winner of the debate.] The heretic said, "Why do you not follow?" Kanadeva said, "Why do you not precede?" The heretic said, "You're a knave." Kanadeva said, "You're a freeman."
Over and over Kanadeva would respond to questions like this, using his unobstructed powers of argument to overcome heretics, who would therefore submit. At such times the honorable Kanadeva would hold a red flag in his hand, and the one who had been defeated would stand beneath the flag. Among the heretics, to have their hands cut was generally the punishment to expiate the fault (or defeat in argument), but at this time Kanadeva put a stop to this; he only required his defeated adversaries to shave off their hair and enter the Buddhist path. Therefore the school of Kanadeva flourished greatly. Later on Hsueh Tou uses these facts to versify this.
... "The school of Kanadeva, the Kanadeva school; beneath the red flag, arouse the pure wind." Pa Ling said he piled up snow in a silver bowl; why then does Hsueh Tou say he roused the pure wind beneath the red flag? Do you know that Hsueh Tou kills people without using a sword? ...
...only Pa Ling speaks as he does--he's extremely lofty and unique, unavoidably difficult to understand. Then too, without revealing a trace of his sharp point, he takes on enemies on all sides, and blow by blow finds a way to get himself out. ...
... Ma Tsu said, "The Lankavatara scripture says that Buddha's words have mind as their source and the gate of nothingness as the gate of the Dharma."
Ma Tsu also said, "Whenever there are words and phrases, this is the Kanadeva school; just this he considered to be principal."
All of you are guests in the school of the patchrobed monks; have you ever thoroughly comprehended the school of Kanadeva as well?
... Later Yun Men said, "Great Master Ma spoke good words, but no one asks about it." Thereupon a monk asked, "What is the school of Kanadeva?" Yun Men said, "Of the ninety-six kinds of heretics, you are the lowest."
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Submitted October 31, 2019 at 07:30AM by i-dont-no https://ift.tt/2WD3iwh
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