One day, the governor of the province asked Muzhou, "What is the business of Zen?"
Muzhou said, "Come here, come here."
The governor approached; Muzhou said, "You sure can talk nonsense!"
The governor was speechless. Finally Muzhou asked, "Whom have you seen?"
The governor said that he had seen such-and-such, an old adept. Muzhou asked, "What else?" The governor replied that he had read scriptures. Muzhou suddently hit his chair and said, "In the teachings, what is this called?"
The governor said, "It is not spoken of in the teachings."
Muzhou said, "In the teachings it says, 'Productive labor as a means of livelihood is not contrary to the truth.' What about that?"
The governor had no reply.
An old adept not worth mentioning, a scripture that can't address someone hitting their chair, and no reply to a Zen Master who can carry the conversation on the tips of his fingers and lead around a provincial governor...
Productive, everyday labor...that cuts out prayer, prosletysation, and religious trolling of subreddits as being contrary to the truth.
Livelihood isn't just 9-5.
Submitted June 04, 2020 at 03:21AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2XtrN0D
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