Model Subject № 30 of The Blue Cliff Records
R. D. M. Shaw Translation
Attention! A monk asked Jo-shu: "I hear by rumour that you used to be closely associated with Nan-sen. Is that so, or not?"
Jo-shu replied: "Chin-shu produces very large radishes."
'Chin-shu produces large radishes.'
Monks everywhere have taken this as a model.
It is obvious from ancient to modern times that one cannot ask a swam why it is white or a crow why it is black.
A rascal, a rascal. The monks' noses have already been twisted by him.
See? Zen Masters aren't models and large radish talk isn't the metric for having answered a question; Zhaozhou clears that up. Well, how now, brown cow...
No matter how you dice the radish up, "rumor has it..." won't cut it.
Submitted May 07, 2020 at 06:15PM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/3fx3mqq
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