Three illnesses

Master Yunmen cited the following story by Xuansha:

The old venerables everywhere keep talking about making use of anything to guide sentient beings. If all of a sudden they encountered someone with the three illnesses, how would they deal with him?

Since he is blind, he won’t see their picking up the gavel and raising the whisk.

Since he is deaf, he won’t hear their most eloquent words.

And since he is mute, they may want him to speak, but he cannot.

So how would they deal with him? If they cannot guide him, then the Buddhist teaching has no spiritual use.

Koalazen: what does this have to do with Buddhism?

Koalazen 2: when you turn off the lights, there is still vision.

Submitted December 21, 2018 at 02:06PM by koalazen http://bit.ly/2rReXZq