Pointer
Inside the heartland, the emperor's command; outside the castle walls, the general's order. Sometimes empowered at the gate, sometimes honored in the room - tell me, who is this?
Case
A monk asked Jiashan, "How is it when getting rid of the dust to see Buddha?"
Jiashan said, "You should directly swing the sword. If you don't swing the sword, the fisherman stays in a nest."
The monk brought it up to ask Shishuang, "How is it when getting rid of dust to see Buddha?"
Shishuang said, "He as no country - where will you meet him?"
The monk returned and quoted this to Jiashan: Jiashan went up in the hall and said, "In the establishment of method and school, he does not compare to me: in profound talk entering the principle, I am still a hundred steps behind Shishuang."
Verse
The star-brushing sword, the army-washing weather.
Settling disorder, deferring the merit, who else is it?
One morning the haze of dust clears over the four seas:
Robes hanging down, the imperial rule is naturally effortless.
A snippet of the commentary...
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The Book of Changes says, "Emperor's Huang, Yao, and Shun ruled the land with their robes hanging down - their effortless rule was enforced without command." This part of the verse eulogizes no nest to stay in - "He has no country - where will you meet him?"
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Do you want to see Jiashan? It is because of inequity that the sword is drawn from its scabbard; it is to treat disease that medicine is taken from the golden jar.
- Case 68, Cleary's Book of Serenity
sje's blah..
I'm not that fond of emperors or generals.
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
Submitted October 09, 2019 at 07:49PM by sje397 https://ift.tt/35mvUNW
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