"three pounds of hemp"

i see people quote this koan then indulge in some pompous bullshit to the effect they know the secret meaning and you don't, you know, the usual pretentious r|zennist idiocy

you can be sure being a monk is the last thing on their minds, but in fact it means a monk's robes

both quotes below are from

"According to McRae, the reference to ‘three pounds of hemp’ simply alludes to the standard allotment of cloth for a monk’s robe.

Thus, he continues, ‘…when asked the meaning of ‘Buddha’, Zhaozhou responded, more or less, “A set of monk’s robes is all it takes” "

bankei's unborn mind is a passive version of an ideology of the hongzen school

"The idea of the Hongzhou school is that the arising of the mind, a movement of thought, a snapping of fingers, a tinkling of musical chimes, a spreading of a fan, all action and all doing are the function of the entire essence Buddhanature. "

the notion of practice itself is western and not chinese or pre meiji japanese

in the same way zen is now being reconstructed in china from japanese zen since it was wiped out by the cultural revolution so meiji japan partially rewrote zen in the image of western cultural religious ideas

this has all be abetted by biased translators

fools the pompous idiots anyway, they are disgusting intellectual tards !

Submitted December 16, 2018 at 07:26AM by zaddar1 https://ift.tt/2S9nEu0