The master instructed the assembly saying, "Kashyapa transmitted it to Ananda. Tell me whom did Bodhidharma tranmit it to?"
A monk asked, "Supposing that the second patriarch 'got the marrow', what about it?"
The master said, "Don't slander the Second Patriarch."
The master then said, "Bodhidharma had a saying, 'Someone who is outside attains the skin; someone who is inside attains the bone.' Tell me, what has the one who is inside attained?"
A monk asked, "What is the truth of 'attaining the marrow'?"
The master said, "Simply be aware of the skin, where I am the marrow is not established."
The monk said, "What is the marrow?"
The master said, "In that case, the skin is sought and not found."
A monk asked, "To a superior man, make one action and he moves on. What about when an inferior man comes?"
The master said, "Are you superior or inferior?"
The monk said, "Please answer."
The master said, "In speaking you are not yet the master."
The monk said, "I've come seven thousand miles, don't play mind games with me."
The master said, "I have received this question from you so how can mind games not be played?"
The monk stayed one night and left.
The master instructed the assembly saying, "I do not enjoy hearing the word 'Buddha'."
A monk asked, "Do you help people or not?"
The master said, "I help people."
The monk said, "How do you help people?"
The master said, "Not aware of the deep principle, futilely labouring to calm the mind."
The monk said, "You said it was deep, but what is the principle?"
The master said, "I don't hold on to a basis."
The monk said, "That is deep, what is the principle?"
The master said, "The principle is answering you."
Three different cases handed down through the ages! Someone light incense or something!
In the first, the suggestion that the 2nd Patriarch "got the marrow" is slander.
In the second, we have a monk dejected that Zhaozhou was playing him like a fiddle despite his traveling seven-thousand miles.
In the third, a monk comes and inquires about help from this guy who said he does not enjoy hearing the word 'Buddha'.
When talking about Zhaozhou's "helping people", what can this sweet ghee possibly be compared to? What might it be contrasted with?
Submitted December 28, 2019 at 12:41AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2t4WtJ0
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