The Real Shobogenzo: Low bar for Zen Masters; they'll let anybody in

Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo, Vo. 2:

512 . Master Shexian Sheng was asked one day by master Nian, “If you call it a bamboo knife, you’re attached; if you don’t call it a bamboo knife, you’re turning away. What should it be called?” With this Sheng was greatly enlightened. He then seized the bamboo knife, broke it, tossed it down the stairs, and said, “What is this?” Nian said, “Blind!” Sheng then bowed.

When a monk asked for help with the story of Zhaozhou’s cypress tree, Sheng said, ‘I don’t decline to explain to you, but will you believe?” The monk said, “How dare I not believe weighty words of the teacher?” Sheng said, “Do you hear the sound of rain dripping from the eaves?”

The monk’s mind was opened; he unconsciously cried, “Yea!” Sheng said, “What principle have you seen?” The monk replied in verse,

The sound of rain dripping from the eaves Is distinctly clear. The dripping breaks up heaven and earth; Right away the mind stops.

Sheng was delighted.

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(Welcome link) (ewk^who?) note: What does it mean "right away the mind stops"? Is there a practice? What comes after the stopping? Is it true that the bar is so low?

Submitted October 16, 2020 at 04:51PM by ewk https://ift.tt/353I4fl