“A monk asked, ‘I am a stupid person: floating, sinking, floating, sinking. How can I be released [from this world of suffering]?’
Joshu just kept sitting silently.
The monk said, ‘Master, am I not sitting here, appealing to you?’
Joshu said, ‘Where on earth is it that you are floating and sinking?’”
- Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshu
sq(666)'s commentary: This commentary's my first and this commentary will suck. I'm sick of Zen Master's roundabout answers. I have a cold, my throat hurts, I have a headache, and the exhale from my nose burns my nostrils. Where am I floating and sinking? In my mind. These evaluative judgments originate from my mind, and since these evaluative judgments are over where I am compared to where I want to be, I feel shitty 'cause I'm not there. And every single year that passes looks good in hindsight and every year that comes looks terrible on the horizon. All this is why I'm coming to y'all and these old dudes from places I've never been. And either the translations suck or Joshu and Huineng and Yunmen and those peeps sucked at answering. But of course, what's probably most likely true is that I suck at reading them 'cause I'm a stupid person: floating, sinking, floating, sinking. And it looks to me that all these Zen masters can't hear me. I am so sick of floating and sinking and I'm so sick of these Zen idiosyncracies. This commentary probably won't help anyone else, but I'll start here regardless.
Submitted November 21, 2019 at 05:54AM by 25point8069758011279 https://ift.tt/35jDNTz
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