Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo, Vo. 2:
490 . For a long time master Deshan made it his task to lecture on the Diamond Sutra; later he heard that the Chan school in the South was flourishing greatly, and couldn’t figure out why. Eventually he stopped lecturing, dismissed his students, and took his commentaries to travel South.
He first went to Longtan, where as soon as he stepped across the threshold he said, “I have long heard of Longtan [‘dragon pond’], but now that I’m here I don’t see a pond, and a dragon does not appear.” Longtan said, “You have personally arrived at Dragon Pond.” Deshan then bowed and withdrew. That
night he went into Longtan’s quarters and stood in attendance. When it had become late, Longtan said, “Why don’t you leave?” Deshan finally bid goodbye, raised the blind and went out. Seeing it was dark outside, he came back and said, “It’s dark outside.” Longtan then lit a paper torch and handed it to Deshan. Just as Deshan took it, Longtan blew it out. At this Deshan was suddenly greatly enlightened. He then bowed. Longtan said, “What have you see, that you bow?”
Deshan said, “From now on I won’t doubt what the old masters in the land say.” The next day Longtan went up in the hall and said, “Thee is someone here with fangs like sword trees, mouth like a bowl of blood; struck a blow of the cane, he won’t turn his head. Some day he’ll establish my path on the summit of a solitary peak.” Deshan subsequently took his commentaries and held up a torch in front of the teaching hall; he said,
“Thorough explanation of the mysteries is like a single hair in cosmic space; exhausting the workings of the world is like a drop in an abyss.” He then burned the commentaries, bowed, and departed.
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(Welcome link) (ewkwho?) note: Longtan was matter-of-fact. How sweet it is when somebody has no need of lying to you. Deshan couldn't understand why Zen flourished until he encountered the dharma himself. Look at all the trouble that caused; burning sutra bibles and whatnot.
Lots of people are afraid of a drop in the abyss... is that like not seeing the forest for the trees?
Submitted September 07, 2020 at 03:47PM by ewk https://ift.tt/3lX4Hdc
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