A monk asked, "Without pointing to a dharma, what is your dharma?"
The master said, "I don't expound the dharma of the Taoists."
The monk said, "You don't expound the dharma of the taoists, but what is your dharma?"
The master said, "I told you, I don't expound the dharma of the taoists."
The monk said, "That's it, isn't it?"
The master said, "I've never used that to instruct people."
A monk asked, "It is not yet clear to me, what about it when someone vows to leave home and search for supreme wisdom?"
The master said, "If you have not left home, wisdom uses you; after leaving home you can use wisdom."
The master once went out and saw an old woman seeding a field. The master said, "What do you do when a ferocious tiger comes?"
The old woman said, "There is not one dharma that can be applied."
The master shouted, "RAWR!"
The old woman screamed, "RAWR!"
The master said, "You still have that."
A monk asked, "What is the practice hall?"
The master said, "From the practice hall you have come. From the practice hall you will go. Everything is the practice hall. There is no other place.
We've got lots of people from colorful backgrounds coming in and trying to pass off their teachings as zen. It's pretty phony stuff even from a distance, but when you approach you really find out what a stinking pile of dog-shit it is.
Why sully the name of Daoists by associating them with this bunch of blabbermouths known for transgressing their teachings and using their sacred texts for whatever they want to?
The old woman above has her "RAWR!", what do you have?
Submitted December 30, 2019 at 10:02AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2Qz2R3r
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