Monday, 20 January 2020

Yunmen Wenyan [864-949]: One day someone asked Master Yunmen, "What is Zen?"

One day someone asked Master Yunmen, "What is Zen?"

The Master replied, "That's it!"

The questioner went on, "What is the Way?"

The master said, "Okay!"

Yunmen Wenyan [864-949]

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Commentary: Again and again, this is all it comes down to. To seek implies that there is something elsewhere to be found, and to give answers is to believe that there is someone else to hear it. There is no mind, and there is no Dharma.

There is no form, therefore there are no arguments to resolve. No one is listening outside of themselves, and no one speaks any words that another can hear. It is all simply thus.



Submitted January 21, 2020 at 08:00AM by _WanderingRonin_ https://ift.tt/2uesNK1

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