The four eyes are undimmed; the six thieves surrender.
Having seen the year of Great Peace in a forest of spears and shields, you find the land of purity in a pile of rubbish.
Would you believe it is fundamentally inherent?
How could you know it is not sought from another?
Stealing leisure in the midst of hurry, how can you understand verbally?
QUOTATION
Yaoshan asked novice Gao, "I hear that Changan is very noisy."
The novice said, "My province is peaceful."
Yaoshan joyfully said, "Did you realize this from reading scriptures, or from making inquiries?"
The novice said, "I didn't get it from reading scriptures or from making inquiries."
Yaoshan said, "Many people do not read scriptures or make inquiries - why don't they get it?"
The novice said, "I don't say they don't get it - it's just that they don't agree to take it up."
LINQUAN'S COMMENTARY
When novice Gao first called on Yaoshan, Yaoshan asked him, "Where do you come from?"
He said, "From Nanyue."
Yaoshan asked, "Where are you going?"
He said, "To Jiangling to receive the precepts."
Yaoshan said, "What is the aim of receiving precepts?"
He said, "To escape birth and death."
Yaoshan said, "There is someone who doesn't receive the precepts and has no birth and death to escape - do you know?"
He said, "Then what is the use of the buddha's precepts?"
Yaoshan said, "This novice still has lips and teeth."
The novice bowed and withdrew.
Daowu came and stood by Yaoshan; Yaoshan said to him, "That limping novice who just came, after all has some life in him."
Daowu said, "He's not to be entirely believed yet - you should test him again first."
When evening came, Yaoshan went up into the hall; he called, "Where is the novice who came earlier?"
Novice Gao came forth from the assembly and stood there;
Yaoshan said, "I hear Changan is very noisy; do you know, or not?"
The novice said, "My province is peaceful."
Fayan said, as an alternative reply, "Who told you?"
Yaoshan, seeing that the novice's reply had some basis, again asked, "Did you realize this from reading scriptures, or from making inquiries?"
The novice didn't fall into his cage at all; he said, "I didn't get it from reading scriptures or from making inquiries."
Yaoshan saw that he couldn't entrap him; using another living road of action, again he said accusingly, "Many people don't read scriptures or make inquiries - why don't they get it?"
The novice's whole body was hands and eyes - he wouldn't be tied up or overthrown; he said, "I don't say they don't get it - it's just that they don't agree to take it up."
At this point, the cart couldn't be pushed sideways, principle could not be decided crookedly; Yaoshan looked back at Daowu and Yunyan and said, "Didn't you believe what I said?"
We might say that to surpass the crowd one must be an out-standing spirit, conquering enemies is a matter for a lion.
If you can see through here, only then can you truly say that you are desireless in the midst of desires, unstained while dwelling in the dusts, going through a thicket of a hundred kinds of flowers without a single petal getting on you.
If you can forget both clamor and silence, you will surely understand the simultaneous realization of absolute and relative. At this point, how should one judge?
TOUZI'S VERSE
Flourishing, perishing; clouds go, clouds come. He has no country, is utterly free from dust. On the peak of Mount Sumeru, rootless plants; Without feeling the spring breeze, the flowers bloom of themselves.
LINQUAN'S COMMENTARY
(Raising a yellow flower,) Worldly affairs - clouds going through a thousand changes; evanescent life - a scene in a dream.
Although this is momentarily conveying elation, expressing feelings, there is a deep reason to it. If you are able to act in accordance with what you say, so that mind and mouth are not two, if you can see through here, you will not be fooled by myriad objects - what gain and loss, right and wrong, prosperity and decline, success and defeat can fetter you?
Fengxue said, "If you set up a single atom, the country flourishes and the peasants frown. If you do not set up a single atom, the country perishes and the peasants rest easy."
All at once cutting off the setting up and not setting up, what flourishing or perishing can remain? This is all leftovers of inherent emptiness, floating flowers in the eye of the Way. Although coming and going leaves no traces, what about ignorance becoming an obstacle to vision?
Just realizing pure spotless clarity, free of even a fine hair, in the echoless mountains you meet a legless stone man, and on top of Mount Sumeru pick rootless auspicious plants. I hope without depending on the spring breeze the fragrance will fill the world;
I ask chan followers who have the eye to try to come appreciate it. Do you see? Spiritual sprouts grow where there is land; great enlightenment does not keep a teacher.
AssholeBuddha Commentary:
"I don't say they don't get it - It's just that they don't agree to take it up"...a novice tongue chops off the head of the serpent and still people fear its bite. How can anyone recover from such disgracefulness? A novice people!
And what's this business about "great enlightenment does not keep a teacher"?
Anyways, pretty cool case with my man Touzi laying down some freestyle rap.
Submitted January 18, 2020 at 08:13AM by AssholeBuddha https://ift.tt/2NDvMT9
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