BCR C17: Meaning of the coming from the West

POINTER

Cut through nails and shear through iron, then you can be a genuine master of our school. If you run away from arrows and avoid swords, how could you possibly be a competent adept? The place where even a needle cannot enter, I leave aside for now; but tell me, what's it like when the foamy waves are flooding the skies? To test, I cite this; look!

CASE

A monk asked Hsiang Lin, "What is the meaning of the Patri­arch's coming from the West?" ¹

Hsiang Lin said, "Sitting for a long time becomes toil­ some." ²

NOTES

1. There have been many people with doubts about this; there is still news of this around.

2. When a fish swims through, the water is muddied; when a bird flies by, feathers drop down. Better shut that dog’s mouth. The eye of an adept. A saw cutting apart a scale beam.”

NOTES FROM AN OWL

Millennia pass and still people gossip about you.

Everyone knows why he sits, no one knows why he moves.

What sort of conundrum is this?

Look at yourself, why worry about the Patriarch?

Submitted April 29, 2021 at 03:25AM by Owlsdoom https://ift.tt/3u2qlAp