Straightforwardly digging through the layers of snow piling up generation after generation in front of the caves Shaolin isn't a matter of making random noises, adopting the posture of a stone figure kept on the mantlepiece, or searching in a ghost-cave for a human; haven't you heard, this is a family of oysters?
Regardless, the wall of snow surrounding you is a thousand miles high--the slightest movement will have it tumble down on you! How will you dig yourself out?
Citation:
Once when it was snowing Daian said, "The earth is covered with snow. Here deep in the mountains it's extra cold. If a worthy successor had not arrived, Bodhidharma's facing a wall would have been for no reason.
"But tell me, everyone: did Bodhidharma have no reason? Do I have no reason?"
Daian held up the staff, then threw it down and said, "No reason, no reason."
Submitted October 16, 2020 at 06:30AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/3nZbSmi
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