One of my favorite excepts from The Sutra of Huineng

One day the Master said to the congregation, "I have something with no head, no tail, no name, no label, no back, no front: do you recognize it?

Shenhui came forth and said, "This is the original source of all buddhas, my buddha-nature."

The Master said, "I just told you it has no name or label; then you immediately call it the original source, the buddha-nature. Later on, when you have a bunch of thatch covering your head, you will still just be a follower of intellectual understanding."

It's just really funny.

Submitted January 26, 2018 at 08:14AM by Type_DXL http://ift.tt/2rEFE6J