Zen Under the Gun: Gluttony! False Selves! It's a real dog party!

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Zen Masters after Wumen:

Hengchuan (1222-1289)

Gluttony

Hengchuan said, "The whole body is food, the whole body is drink. How many drink themselves to death? How many eat themselves to death?"

Hengchuan held up the staff and said. "Go back to the meditation hall."

Living in Peace

At a small gathering at the start of the summer retreat, Hengchuan said:

"The method of dwelling in peace has already been explained: we just have to practice it faithfully. As we raise and lower our feet, we naturally do not harm living beings. To protect life requires killing the false self; only when this is completely slain can one live in peace. This method too must be practiced faithfully."

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Welcome! ewk comment: I don't know if you are paying attention... but WTF? To protect life? He's got a very... different... view of life than most people, right?

I'll wager there are plenty of people in this forum eating-the-body-to-death and drinking-the-body-to-death, let alone in all those heathen foreigner forums like r/cupcakes and r/bottledwater.

Scandal!

How can you save yourself with only a couple of precepts?

Save me! Save me! Zhaozhou called out...

Submitted August 09, 2022 at 10:58AM by ewk https://ift.tt/C3B691z