When Xinghua questioned the duty distributor Kepin by telling him he’d be a teacher proclaiming the Way before long, Kepin said he didn’t join this company.
Not joining?? Who does he think he is?
Xinghua asked if he refrained from joining having understood, or if he refrained from joining without understanding. Kepin said there was no connection and Xinghua hit him, declaring he had failed to prevail in Dharma combat and would be fined five strings of cash to provide a meal. And this fellow, suspiciously, forked over the cash.
What’s the big deal? It’s not his money anyway.
The next day at mealtime Xinghua personally struck the signal board and announced that Kepin, having failed to prevail in Dharma combat, would not get to partake of the feast; and then expelled him from the monastery.
No place for him there.
If you want to help establish Linji’s treasury of the eye of true teaching, you have to understand this case before you amount to anything.
Do you understand this case? If you say you do, then you miss Kepin.
If not, then how can you amount to anything?
Setting that aside for a moment:
Kepin was expelled from the monastery. Sometimes it looks like someone is winning Dharma Combat, when really they’re not...
Why did Xinghua say Kepin failed?
(The quotes here are an excerpt from Yuanwu’s commentary on the case [p.76 of the kindle edition].)
Submitted July 26, 2022 at 05:43AM by Histoic https://ift.tt/c4anBli
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