When the Master was at the Gyokuryuji in Mino, the Soto worthy Nanryu took his fan and, pointing to his place, demanded:
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"Your Reverence, how come you're passing this place up?"
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The Master said: "Well, just what sort of place is this?"
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Nanryu replied: "Unborn and imperishable."
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The Master told him: "You're mistakenly caught up in words and names."
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Raising his voice, Nanryu said: "Getting older and older, running to the east, running to the west—why are you going around bewitching lay men and women!"
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The Master replied: "When you use an evil eye, evil's what you'll see."
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Nanryu went off, but after a while he came forward and prostrated himself before the Master, expressing his profound gratitude.
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What are you seeing?
Submitted November 15, 2018 at 04:50AM by Pikkko https://ift.tt/2DmT5Mw
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