UhExist Comment:
This is kind of a meme, no?
When you say this, are you speaking your own actions or are you speaking of an ideal?
There was a Vinaya teacher by the name of Yuan who came and asked, ‘When the venerable monk practises the Dao, is it still productive of merit?'
‘It produces merit,' answered Master Dazhu.
‘What is producing merit?' asked the teacher.
‘To eat when hungry, to sleep when tired,' replied the master.
‘Everybody does that, so is the merit the same as the master's?' asked the priest.
‘Not the same,' answered the master.
‘Why not the same then?' asked the teacher.
‘When others eat it is not wholly eating but pondering over a hundred kinds of other things too, when they sleep it is not wholly sleeping but plotting and planning a thousand affairs. So it is not the same,' said the master.
The Vinaya master was silenced.
Submitted October 07, 2019 at 01:32PM by UhExist https://ift.tt/2VjJ0Hj
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