Daoxin goes up in the mountain looking for this guy Farong who’s supposed to be a person of the way:
Daoxin said, “I am Zen master Daoxin.” Farong said, “Why have you come here?” Daoxin said, “I’ve come here especially to pay you a visit. Do you have someplace we can take a rest?” Farong pointed and said, “Over there I have a small cottage.” He then led Daoxin to a cottage that was surrounded by wild beasts such as tigers and wolves. Daoxin put both of his hands up in the air as if he were scared. Farong said, “Are you still like this?” Daoxin said, “What is ‘this’?” Farong couldn’t answer. Later, Daoxin wrote the word “Buddha” on Farong’s meditation seat. When Farong saw this he was horrified. Daoxin said, “Are you still like this?” Farong didn’t understand, so he bowed and asked Daoxin to explain his meaning.
Daoxin does explain his meaning but it’s kinda long so maybe another day.
I was looking for this case for a while and /u/bigsky001 identified it based on my very inaccurate memory of the story. I had it as Daoxin being actually scared of the beasts and couldn’t remember what he said after Farong gave him a hard time about being scared.
I copied this excerpt from this post because the only other place I could find it online was kinda questionable. I guess the whole thing is kinda questionable.
I wonder how would you explain “this” to Farong?
Submitted May 05, 2021 at 08:43PM by dustorlegs https://ift.tt/3b5SezX
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