Our great ancestral teacher Baiyun said, "It is neccesary to awaken; then after awakening it is necessary to meet someone."
You say that once you're enlightened you come to rest--what's the need to meet someone? Those who've met someone after awakening spontaneaously have ways to succeed time and again when it comes to reaching out with expedients, not blinding people's eyes.
Those who have realized a dry turnip not only blind students eyes, they're also prone to run afoul of their points themselves and hurt their own hands.
Also, in years past there was a dried turnip who licked his teeth and talked about this and that. But now there isn't even a dry one, let alone a moist one either. What to teach the ordained and the lay?
When observed coolly at some point, it seemed like being mute. This is just laughable. It's very far from means of helping people.
Do Zen Masters help people? Sure, let's run with that.
This help though isn't encapsulated in offering healthy people poison, blinding other people's eyes, or shackling the free by imitating a dry turnip.
Speaking of...omg, can we all acknowledge how "realized a dry turnip" is like the best smack talk since like...Shiqi reassuring Buddhists before he ascended the chair to lecture on the title of that sutra.
Cult-leaders who fraudulently advertise their religions as Zen, though? Not even dry turnips.
Submitted April 30, 2020 at 08:07AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2Snx5bj
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