When Master Yunmen saw a monk reading a scripture with the characters "dragon treasury" on it, he asked the monk, "What is it that comes out of the dragon's treasury?"
The monk had no answer.
The master said, "Ask me, I'll tell you."
So the monk asked, and the master replied, "What comes out is a dead frog."
One behalf of the baffled monk he said, "A fart."
Again he said, "Steam-buns and stream-cakes."
Yunmen Wenyan [864-949]
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Commentary: Much ado about nothing, haha. But tell me, does Yunmen blaspheme the teachings or expound the Dharma in full? Silver mountains and iron walls, with nothing at all to be done from the very first. How much work have you decided to create for yourself? But make no mistake: Foyan says that aimlessness doesn't hit the target either.
Submitted January 26, 2020 at 07:43PM by _WanderingRonin_ https://ift.tt/2NZVRMa
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