(Repost) (All cases quoted from Cleary's BCR)
A monk asked [ZhaoZhou], "For a long time I've heard of the {stone bridge of ZhaoZhou} (趙州橋), but now that I've come here I just see a simple log bridge."
Zhou said, "You just see the log bridge; you don't see the {stone bridge}."
The monk said, "What is the stone bridge?"
Zhou said, "It lets asses cross, it lets horses cross."
One day ZhaoZhou was with the head monk looking at the stone bridge when he asked the head monk,
"Who built this?"
The head monk said, "{Li Chun} built it."
Zhou said, "When he built it, where did he start?"
The head monk had no reply.
Zhou said, "You're always talking about the stone bridge, but when you're asked about where it was started, you don't even know."
Once when [Elder Ding] was returning from a vegetarian feast, he rested on a bridge.
There he met three lecturing monks.
One of them asked, "What is the meaning of 'Where the river of Ch'an is deep, you must plumb the very bottom'?"
Ding grabbed him and was about to throw him off the bridge, when the other two lecturers frantically tried to rescue him, saying, "Stop! Stop! He has offended you, Elder, but we hope you will be merciful."
Ding said, "If not for you two, I would have let him plumb the very bottom!"
Observe such methods of his. This is wholly the dynamic function of LinJi.
[MahaSattva Fu] said,
Empty handed, holding a hoe,
Walking, riding a water buffalo,
A man is crossing over a bridge;
The bridge, not the water, flows.
Submitted September 17, 2020 at 06:23AM by ZEROGR33N https://ift.tt/2ZMIyEV
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