Just bumped into this fascinating little tid bit in Andy Ferguson's Zen's Chinese Heritage:
Yue'an Shanguo was a disciple of Kaifu Daoning. He came from ancient Xinzhou (an area in what is now Jianxi Province). He lived and taught at Moon Hermitage on famous Mt. Gui. Yue'an transmitted the Dharma seal of Yangqi Zen to Wumen Huikai, the compiler of the Gateless Gate.
Yue'an posed a koan to his students, which was later included by Wumen Huikai as case eight in the Gateless Gate, entitled "Xi Zhong's Cart."
Master Yue'an asked a monk, "If you disconnected each end of the hundred spokes on Xi Zhong's cart, and removed the axle, what principle would be clearly revealed?"
The Wudeng Huiyuan indicates that Master Yue'an's narrative did not stop with this question, but continued as follows:
Upon speaking thus, Yue'an used his staff to draw a circle in the air. He then said, "Never fail to recognise the scale's balance!"
He then stood up, got down from the meditation platform, thanked the hall attendant, and went out.
I think this contrasts nicely with Yuanwu's comment in the Blue Cliff Record case 86: "Perceive the meaning on the hook; don't abide by the zero point of the scale."
Submitted June 19, 2020 at 08:13PM by sje397 https://ift.tt/37KUwSj
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