A monk said to Nan-yin “What is the great meaning of Buddhism?” Nan-yin said, “The origin of a myriad diseases.” The monk said, “Please cure me!”, Nan-yin said, “The world Doctor folds his arms.”
This is unusually poetical, and of a melancholy grandeur. It also happens to be true. Buddhism is both the cause and effect of an unsound mind in an unsound body. Note that greediness, stupidity, maliciousness and so on are not illnesses, for animals have them. Illness means thinking you are ill.
And who can cure the illnesses which Doctor Buddha and Doctor Christ have caused?!
- Excerpt taken from Zen & Zen Classics - selections from R.H Blyth
Submitted September 22, 2020 at 11:55PM by skininthegame87 https://ift.tt/3mIwhLs
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