Master Deshan said to an assembly, What concerns do you have, from morning to night? Isn’t it that you want to show off by questioning me? I’m not afraid of you, but I wonder what doubts you have.
Recently, in this time of degenerate teaching, there are lots of groups of ghosts who run off at the mouth to others, claiming to be Chan teachers. I wonder how much Chan you have managed to learn—come tell me about it!
Your blind baldies at various centers have taught you to ‘practice’—how many Buddhas have you produced running to irrelevancies?
If there is nothing to learn, then what are you after? If you have learned anything, then try to show me what you’ve learned. But you’ll have to be ready to take a beating if you say anything wrong.
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ewk note: Deshan was a Buddhist before he burned the sutras and left the faith. What did he learn that he decided to do that?
My guess is that the majority of the more bitter trolls in this forum over the last few years have all done time in Soto Buddhist training centers. My second guess is that they weren't ordained, they couldn't make the cut. Not coincidentally, these are the same people who panic when asked to AMA. What is it that they were taught? What did they practice, besides prayer?
Setting that aside, what do people learn from Wumenguan, Zen instruction texts, or Zen sayings? People take a beating all the time in this forum... what does anyone learn from a beating?
Submitted December 10, 2018 at 03:56AM by ewk https://ift.tt/2QG4P3X
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