The Real Shobogenzo: You want a piece of me?

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

514 .  Master Wuzu Yan said to an assembly, If there is anyone who can take the waters of the four great oceans for an inkstone and the polar mountain for a brush, and writes in space the words, “The meaning of the founding teacher’s coming from the West,” I will get off my chair, spread my mat, and pay homage to him as my teacher.  If you can’t write it, then Buddhism has no spiritual effect.  Is there anyone?  Is there? 

(Then he got down from the chair; the assembly dispersed.)

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(Welcome link) (ewk^who?) note: lol. You want a piece of me? I googled it and then watched Stiller say it to Louis-Dreyfus after she tells him she could drop him like a "bag of dirt". Wuzu Yan dropped his whole congregation like a bag of dirt. What did they think they were there to study? Bodhidummer?

I'm eager to here from the psychonaughts, Buddhists, and meditation worshipers about how their practice will teach them to use the great oceans for an inkstone... my guess is they'll say it is just talk, and that nobody ever beat a Zen Master in dharma combat.

Submitted October 19, 2020 at 05:44PM by ewk https://ift.tt/2IJMlNI