One day the Master asked a monk what his name was.
The monk answered that his name was so-and-so.
The Master: "What one is your real self?"
"The one who is just facing you."
"What a pity! What a pity! The men of the present day are all like this, They take what is in the front of an ass or at the back of a horse and call it themselves. This illustrates the downfall of Buddhism. If you cannot recognize your real self objectively, how can you see your real self subjectively?"
The monk: "How do you see your real self subjectively?
"You have to tell me that yourself."
The monk: "If I Were to tell you myself, it would be seeing myself objectively. What is the self that is known subjectively?"
"To talk about it in such a way is easy to do, but to continue our talking makes it impossible to reach the truth."
Submitted August 24, 2020 at 11:17PM by forgothebeat https://ift.tt/34wKynU
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