Joshu's "Pure Clarity"

The master instructed the assembly saying:

"The True Way is without difficulty, just refrain from picking and choosing."

"To talk about it even a little is picking and choosing. Yet, I am not within 'pure clarity'. In what place can you see the Patriarch?"

A monk asked:

"You are not within 'pure clarity', so what place are you attentive to?"

The master said:

"I don't know either."

The monk said:

"You yourself do not know, so how can you say you are not within 'pure clarity'?"

The master said:

"Your question has been good. Now make your bow and retire."

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This 'pure clarity' what kind of dwelling place is it?

Submitted November 10, 2019 at 04:41AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2pXa5F0