As I was working on my Grand Unified Theory of Dhyana post that will definitely resolve all our disagreements about what that word really means once and for all, I came across this absolute gem of a case from Sun Face Buddha, which is a text I'm still relatively unfamiliar with:
One day Ch'an Master Wei-chien of Le-t'an was sitting in meditation at the back of the Dharma hall. The Patriarch saw him sitting, came to him, and blew twice in his ear. Wei-chien emerged from meditation, and when he saw it was the Patriarch, he entered meditation again. The Patriarch went back to the abbot's quarters and asked his attendant to take a bowl of tea to Wei-chien. [When the attendant took the tea to him] Wei-chien ignored him; then he returned to the hall.
Moral of the story: just leave people alone when they're vibin'. There are zero reasons to interrupt someone's chill by blowing in their ear. The rude patriarch deserved to be thusly ignored for doing so.
Submitted September 11, 2021 at 06:37AM by snarkhunter https://ift.tt/3hobmwb
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