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Zen Masters after Wumen:
Hengchan (1222-1289)
Hengchuan cited this Zen meditation case:
Once when Baizhang went up to the teaching hall, Sheng of Yunyan came forward and asked, "Every day you go into such fine detail: for whom?"
Baizhang said. "There's a person who needs it."
Sheng said, "Why don't you tell him to do it for himself?"
Baizhang said, "He has no tools."
Hengchuan commented, "Where is the person who needs it? Even though he has no tools, it will only work if we make him do it himself."
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Welcome! ewk comment: Hengchuan 1250. Baizhang 800. So there are "two Hengchuan's" between us and Hengchuan, but only one between Baizhang and Hengchuan. Still, I think it's relevant.
Now I know, some of you are going to ask how it's a "meditation" Case, and clearly that's a mistranslation. After all, there is a non-sectarian consensus that there is no sitting meditation tradition in Zen. But ask yourself, how can people be made to do it themselves? For many people, it's going to take sitting in a corner in a time out, isn't it?
Baizhang says his teachings are tools... if so, what is the work? What is the finished result?
And how does this Case inform us about the saving of all sentient beings?
Submitted July 07, 2022 at 06:25AM by ewk https://ift.tt/maxw05E
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