Why talk in your sleep?

A monk asked Zhaozhou, "I have just entered the community - please instruct me."

Zhaozhou said, "Have you eaten breakfast yet?"

"Yes, I have."

Zhaozhou said, "Then wash your bowl."

The monk was greatly enlightened at this.

Yunmen said, "Tell me, was there an instruction or not? If you say there was, then what did Zhaozhou tell him? If you say there wasn't, then why did the monk become enlightened?"

Yunfeng Yue said, "Yunmen doesn't know good and bad; such talk is like drawing legs on a snake. I disagree. This monk being enlightened in this way goes to hell like an arrow shot!"

Dahui commented, "Old Yunmen is like a titan king shoving off the great citadel of all existence and the oceans of afflictions. Ha! Why talk in your sleep? As for Yunfeng, though he skillfully reaches back and takes out a golden arrow, turns around and draws a horn bow, nevertheless he misses Yunmen."

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Ha-ha! How does anyone not fall in love with these jokers?! People who are afraid to address this legal case can't claim to know the law. "Don't be picky"

Nevertheless, this is real srs business, a matter of life & death:

Was there instruction or not from Zhaozhou?

How is this talk like drawing legs on a snake?

How did this comment miss Yunmen?

The arrow is nocked, and the bow is in your hands...cry havoc & let fly!

(Bungled it.)

Submitted September 09, 2020 at 09:21PM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/3iqSVFy