Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
403 . Master Yunmen once said, “The lamp is yourself. Take a bowl and eat food; the food is not yourself.”
A monk then asked, “How about when the food is oneself?”
Yunmen said, “This wild fox spirit, a fellow in a three-family village.” He also said, “Come on, come on—you’re not saying food is yourself.”
He said, “I am.” Yunmen said, “You’ll see in a dream in the year of the ass, a fellow in a three-family village.”
Dahui said, “Using his own mind to the full, he laughs off another person’s mouth.”
. (Welcome link) ewk link note: Is "he laughs off" a mistranslation? Should it have been "Yunmen laughs out of another's mouth"? Otherwise it's just "he laughs at what comes out of another person's mouth" which isn't that interesting.
Anyway, you'll notice that you aren't your food. If, like, you thought you were one with everything and stuff. What else aren't you one with?
Submitted May 06, 2020 at 04:43PM by ewk https://ift.tt/3deaxSi
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