A monk asked, "What is Buddha?"
[Zhenjing] laughed out loud.
The monk said, "What's there to laugh about?"
The teacher said, "I'm laughing at you conceiving interpretation pursuant to words."
The monk said, "I happen to have lost the advantage."
The teacher said loudly, "Don't bow."
The monk then went back to the group. The teacher laughed again and said, "You're conceiving interpretation pursuant to words."
Conceiving interpretation according to words...what a hoot!
Zhenjing reaaaaallly goes out of his way to explain the joke so how could if anyone be faulted if they go up and shout in this old dotards face...
Contrast that dwelling in dead-words-as-foundation with the direct, public confrontation of one's understanding Zen has as founding tradition...you tell me, what is the unalterable foundation?
rofl.
Submitted August 29, 2020 at 04:43PM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/31FrQIW
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