Followers of the Way, you seize upon words from the mouths of those old masters and take them to be the true Way.
You think, ‘These good teachers are wonderful, and I, simple-minded fellow that I am, don’t dare measure such old worthies.’
Blind idiots! You go through your entire life holding such views, betraying your own two eyes.
Trembling with fright, like donkeys on an icy path, [you say to yourselves,] ‘I don’t dare disparage these good teachers for fear of making karma with my mouth!’
~ Linji, a wonderful teacher
The Record of Linji (R.F. Sasaki), Discourses, p. 17
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