A Deadly Snake

From ‘The Book of Serenity, Case 59’:

A monk asked Seirin, ‘How is it when a practitioner goes along a narrow path?’

Seirin said, ‘You will meet a deadly snake on the great road. I advise you not to run into it.'

The monk said, ‘What if I do run into it?’

Seirin said, ‘You will lose your life.’

The monk said, ‘What if I don’t run into it?’

Seirin said, ‘You have no place to escape from it.’

The monk said, ‘Precisely at such a time, what then?’

Seirin said, ‘It is lost.’The monk said, ‘I wonder where it is gone.’

Seirin said, ‘The grass is so deep, there is no place to look for it.’

The monk said, ‘You too, Master, must be watchful in order to get it.’

Seirin clapped his hands and said, ‘This fellow is equally poisonous.’

How would you deal with such a deadly snake? You can’t run into it, you can’t run away from it, you can’t stand still. It seems like the monk has some bite but we can’t know from this whether there is any venom behind his bite.

https://melbournezen.school/blog/a-deadly-snake

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Submitted January 27, 2020 at 11:10AM by melbournezenschool https://ift.tt/36nlflC