Inspired by a Drummer Simulation
Once when everyone was working together hoeing, a comrade heard the dinner drum and suddenly putting up his mattock with a big laugh he left. Po-chang said "Brilliant! This is the gate where Avalokitesvara enters the Principle." The Master returned to his quarters and sent for that comrade, asking, "What truth did you perceive just now to act thus?" "—I just heard the dinner drum pounding and went back to eat." The Master laughed.
What's so funny?
XD
Those who wanted to hold doctrinal disputes in India were required to obtain royal permission. Bells and drums would be sounded in the great temples and afterwards the debates could begin. In Kanadeva's day the heretics impounded the bell and drum in the (Buddhist) community temple in a purge.
Buddhists can't dance to the beat of the drum so they lock it away.
The Zennists beat the drum for dinner and the Buddhists think they are drums of war.
Maybe they think the Zen rice will poison their souls?
Still, all their efforts are in vain. The comrade heard Kanadeva's drum and he destroyed 10,000 Buddhas with his laughter.
With an ordinary mind he ascends the tower and snags the red flag.
Don't fear the rice.
Listen for Kanadeva's drum.
And sure, you can dance if you want to.
(And I'm sure your friends are kind ... but your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well then they're no friends of Mind 🤣)
/spookiness
Submitted December 28, 2019 at 11:02AM by GreenSage45 https://ift.tt/2SwZxZ2
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