The Master once said, "Snapping fingers, chuckling, raising eyebrows, winking eyes, picking up a mallet, holding up a whisk, and sometimes a [drawing] a circle: there are nothing but people-catches."
"What one calls the Buddha Dharma has never yet been expressed in words. If it had, that would be no more than dropping shit and spraying piss."
Master Yunmen cited the following story:
Xuefeng said, "A man sitting next to a rice basket is starving to death, and a fellow by a river is dying of thirst."
Xuansha commented: "A man sitting in a rice basket is starving to death, and a fellow up to his head in water is dying of thirst,"
Master Yunmen said, "His whole body is rice! His whole body is water!"
One day the Master said, "I entangle myself in words with you every day; I can't go on till the night. Come on, ask me a question right here and now!"
In place of his listeners, Master Yunmen said, "I'm just afraid that Reverend Yunmen won't answer."
"No more than dropping shit and spraying piss"
"His whole body is rice! His whole body is water!"
Yunmen preaches the un-excelled, exalted dharma, thus I have heard! Without covering yourself in shit & piss, how will you?
Submitted January 16, 2020 at 03:03AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2u2rttA
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