From Case 143 of Dahui's Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching
As Master Changsha [Tiger] Cen was gazing at the moon with Yangshan, Yangshan said, "Everyone has this; it's just that they can't use it."
Changsha said, "I'll have to employ you to use it."
Yangshan said, "How would you use it?"
Changsha kicked him in the chest.
Yangshan said, "Ha! You're just like a tiger!"
Two famous Zen Masters everyone's heard of...right?
There's the uber-famous magic trick of someone pointing to the moon, and then there's the heart-stopping magic trick of a Zen Master kicking someone in the chest.
Lots of people who believe they know some secret want to pretend the first trick can be performed by incanting "Thus have I heard. . ."; what about the second trick?
When you are confronted with a Zen Masters kick in the chest, what do you have to say?
Quite the tiger...
Submitted May 30, 2020 at 06:13PM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2XeO967
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