"This is why the man of old said, “Enlightenment is apart from verbal explanations—there has never been any attainer.”
Deshan said, “Our school has no verbal expressions and not a single thing or teaching to give to people.”
Zhaozhou said: “I don't like to hear the word buddha.”
Look at how, in verbally disavowing verbal explanations, they had already scattered dirt and messed people up. If you go on looking for mysteries and marvels in the Zen masters' blows and shouts and facial gestures and glaring looks and physical movements, you will fall even further into the wild foxes' den."
Commentary: What's with all the Buddha statues? Is it in case we get cold?
Submitted November 22, 2019 at 10:32PM by Gocloudrunwater https://ift.tt/338xzEM
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