Koan Of The Week: Duct_Dodgers

𝟱𝟴𝟰 Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching 𝟱𝟴𝟰

Master Fengxue said to an assembly,

The eye of participatory study requires great function to appear; don't restrict yourself to small measures. Even if you understand before verbalization, this is still lingering in a shell, lost in limitation. Even if you comprehend precisely at a statement, you do not escape crazy views on the road. Your learned understanding hitherto must be dichotomized into light and dark; now I will sweep it away for you all at once. You must each be like a lion roaring, standing like a mile-high wall. Who would dare look straight at you? If anyone looked, it would blind them.

A monk asked, "'Speech and silence get into detachment and subtlety' - how can one get through without transgressing?"

He said, "I always remember spring in the south, the hundred flowers fragrant where the partridges sing."

"What is Buddha?"

"A bamboo strand whip at the foot of the mountain in the forest grown from a staff."

Zhenjing's verse said,

A bamboo whip at the foot of the mountain in the forest grown from a staff -
Water is in the deep valley stream, the moon is in the sky.
I don't know where the good horse has gone;
Ananda, as ever, stands before the World Honored One.

Comment: "A bamboo strand whip at the foot of the mountain in the forest grown from a staff."

That's some weird refining there. you do not escape crazy views on the road . . .

Ok, I confess, I give them as well as get them. But mine are mine; of me. Aimed to inspire broadening. (mine 🤭)

Submitted October 02, 2020 at 08:03PM by TFnarcon9 https://ift.tt/3jofYSd