Sunday, 20 September 2020

The Real Shobogenzo: Nothing Compares to Yangshan

Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo, Vo. 2:

495 .  Yangshan asked Nanta, “How am I like a donkey?”  He said, “Even a Buddha doesn’t compare.” 

Yangshan said, “Since even a Buddha doesn’t compare, what am I like?”  He said, “If you were like anything, how would you differ from a donkey?” 

Yangshan approved of this.

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(Welcome link) (ewkwho?) note: Again, what is the teaching here? What underlying doctrinal position(s) drive this conversation?

Before you can transcend it, you at least have to know how to spell d-o-n-k-e-y.



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