Master Jiuling Yuan called on Changqing. Changqing asked, "What is your name?"
He said, "Mingyuan."
Changqing said, "What about the matter of the Other side?"
He said, "I retreat two steps."
Changqing said, "Why do you pointlessly retreat two steps?"
Yuan had nothing to say. Changqing said in his stead, "If I do not step back, how can I know Mingyuan?" Yuan thereupon got insight.
Later a monk asked, "When there is not a single thing ahead and responsive function lacks nothing, then what?"
Yuan held up a firebrand; that monk got insight.
This one was a few bits going on. How about starting from the middle and working our way out? Reading circle style.
Changqing didn't just let the matter drop when Mingyuan name-dropped himself...he went on with his comment on Mingyuan's "stepping back".
What's this "stepping back" he's going on about?
Submitted June 01, 2020 at 05:21AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2XLjDjb
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