Playing with reflections, struggling for the form, you don't recognize that the form is the source of the reflection.
Raising your voice to stop an echo, you don't know that the voice is the root of the echo.
If it's not riding an ox looking for an ox, then it's using a wedge to remove a wedge.
How can you avoid these extremes?
Venerable YanYang asked ZhaoZhou, "When not a single thing is brought, then what?"
ZhaoZhou said, "Put it down
YanYang said, "If I don't bring a single thing, what should I put down?”
ZhaoZhou said, "Then carry it out."
TianTong saw that the monks of recent times were getting more and more coarse-minded, so he beat the grass to scare the snakes:
Not prepared for meticulous action, he loses to the first to move
--Realizing himself the coarseness of his mind, he's embarrassed at bumping his head.
When the game is ended, the axe handle's rotted at his side:
Clean and purify the ordinary bones to play with the immortals.
Old Wang Jie Fu, in his secret talk on playing Chinese chess, says, "The other doesn't dare advance, you don't dare advance--only this not daring to advance is why there is no contest; only if there is no contest do you enter into nondying and nonbirth. Chess is the method of contending over the lead; if you win, then you win an aggressive move--if you lose, you lose a confrontation."
Before you have put down your piece, ZhaoZhou already sees several moves ahead; YanYang only flies around and leaps right over, moreover occupying how many [military] columns—he doesn't realize that the axe handle has already rotted.
According to the Annals of Spirits and Immortals, in the Longan era of the Jin dynasty(397-401), Wang Shi of the Xinan district was gathering firewood, when he came to Dark Room Hill; in a stone grotto he saw four boys playing chess.
They gave him some substance like a date; after he ate it he wasn't hungry. When the game was ended, the axe handle had rotted at his side and his clothes were flapping in the wind.
When evening came he returned home--it had already been several decades!
As for ZhaoZhou's two turning-words, "Put it down" and "Carry it out," pull out your tendons, extract your marrow, change your bones and wash your guts--then you can walk hand in hand with ZhaoZhou.
Some say "pure tranquility is the real basis of the path; the unconcerned are little immortals."
Even so, don't take unconcern for unconcern--"time and again concern is born of unconcern."
Who can carry it out?
Submitted October 16, 2020 at 01:09AM by GuruHunter https://ift.tt/2SVjasT
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