Having entered the Dharma Hall for a formal instruction, the Master said:
All of you who come and go for no reason: What are you looking for in here? I only know how to eat and drink and shit. What else would I be good for?
You're making pilgrimages all over the place, studying zen and asking about the way. Let me ask you: What have you managed to learn in all those places? Try presenting that!
Again, he said: "In the meantime, you cheat the Master in your own house. Is that all right? When you manage to find a little slime on my ass, you lick it off, take it to be your own self, and say: 'I understand Zen, I understand the way!' Even if you manage to read the whole Buddhist canon -- so what?!
The old masters couldn't help it. When they say you run about aimlessly, they said to you 'supreme wisdom and nirvana'. They really buried you: they drove in a stake and tied you to it. Again, when they say that you didn't understand, they said to you: 'It's not wisdom and nirvana.' Knowing this sort of thing already shows that you're down on your luck; but now you're looking for comments and explanations by others.
You exterminators of the Buddha Dharma! You've been like this all along! And where has this brought you today??
When I was on pilgrimage some time ago, there was a bunch of people who gave me explanations. They didn't have bad intentions, but one day I saw through them and saw that they were laughingstocks. If I don't die in the next four or five years, I'll get these exterminators of the dharma and break their legs!
These days there are plenty of temple priests everywhere who fake it: why don't you go and join them? What dry piece of shit are you looking for in here?
The Master stepped down from his seat, and he hit and chased the monks out of the hall.
Long-winded guy; I bet there was his slobber all over the hall. To recap:
Yunmen can eat, drink, and shit -- those are the only tricks he's got.
All these monks come around, going place to place, trying to find zen and the way. When they come to Yunmen they lick the slime of his ass and pretend that they know something about zen.
Wisdom and Nirvana are a stake that people tie themselves to. Not Wisdom and Not Nirvana won't help either. The whole Buddhist canon is irrelevant.
Trying to find comments and explanations to believe in is exterminating the dharma; if Yunmen has a chance he will break these peoples' legs.
What is anyone looking for from Zen Masters? What are they good for besides pissing & shitting?
Submitted January 15, 2020 at 04:21AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/30kecIW
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