Master Yuanwu’s Pointer
A clear-eyed person has no nest: sometimes on the summit of a solitary peak weeds grow in profusion; sometimes they’re naked and free in the bustling marketplace. Suddenly they appear as an angry titan, with three heads and six arms; suddenly, as sun-face or moon-face buddha, they release the light of all-embracing mercy. In a single atom they manifest all the physical forms; to save people according to their type, they mix with mud and water. If suddenly they release an opening upwards, not even the Buddha’s eye can see them; even if a thousand sages appeared, they too would have to fall back three thousand miles. Is there anyone with the same attainment and the same realization? To test I cite this old case. Listen.
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The Main Case
Yunmen, teaching his community, said, “Medicine and disease subdue each other. The whole earth is medicine. Where do you find yourself?”
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Master Xuetou’s Verse
The whole earth is medicine:
why have ancients and moderns been so mistaken?
I don’t make the carriage behind closed doors —
The road, though, is naturally quiet and empty.
Wrong, wrong!
Though they be high as the sky, your nostrils have still been pierced.
Submitted August 23, 2020 at 01:21AM by forgothebeat https://ift.tt/3l9q22F
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