Record of Tung-shan:
When Shen-shan had picked up a needle to mend clothes, the Master [Dongshan] asked, "What are you doing?"
"Mending," answered Shen-shan.
"In what way do you mend?" asked the Master.
"One stitch is like the next," said Shen-shan.
"We've been traveling together for twenty years, and you can still say such a thing! How can there be such craftiness?" said the Master.
"How then does the venerable monk mend?" asked Shen-shan.
"Just as though the entire earth were spewing flame," replied the Master.
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ewk book note index - What is Dongshan practicing here? How could anyone put what Dongshan is teaching here into practice? Without studying Dongshan's text, how could anyone refer to Dongshan's teaching? Dongshan was given the nickname "He who questions head monks to death" on account of how, one time, he questioned an old man so harshly in front of everyone that the old man died of shame. Does anyone want to practice that? Come forward! I'll play the old man. When mending, what is the entire earth, and what is the flame?
Submitted December 01, 2017 at 06:53PM by ewk http://ift.tt/2AvpcJ4
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