From Cleary's Motley Collection: 'Teachings of Zen'
Zhaozhou said:
Ninety years ago, I saw more than eighty teachers from the school of the great master Mazu. Each of them was an adept, unlike the teachers today who produce branches and tendrils upon branches and tendrils. The generality of them are far from sagehood, and each generation is worse than the last.
How about Nanquan's usual saying that we should act in the midst of different kinds? How do you understand this? Nowadays yellow-mouthed punks give complicated talks at crosssroads in exchange for food to eat, seeking obeisance, gathering crowds of three to five hundred, saying, "I am the teacher, you are the students."
First off, anyone got the Nanquan quote?
So Zhaozhou chases all the gurus and free-wheeling diciples off of his old-man yard, using Mazu and Nanquan as a brickbat, and they still come back here to get a beating.
He's got them all by the nose.
Submitted May 18, 2020 at 06:44AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2Zg5wVs
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