Revile-ations

Revile - verb, criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.

BCR Case	Location	Revile-ation
1	Commentary	Without the mental defilements of judgement and comparison, everything is cut off, and you are free and at ease.
2	Commentary	(Yuanwu writing about Chao Chou:) This is a very capable teacher of our clan; he does not dis­cuss the abstruse or the mysterious, he does not speak of men­tality or perspectives with you-he always deals with people in terms of the fundamental matter. Thus he would have said, "When we're reviling each other, I let you clamp beaks with me; when we're spitting at each other, I let you spew me with slobber."
6	Commentary	(Yuanwu writing about Yunmen:) Again a monk asked, What is the treasury of the eye of the true Dharma?" Yun Men said, "Universal." It just doesn't allow any attempts to explain. In ordinary situations, even, Yun Men would still revile people. When he uttered a phrase, it was like an iron spike.
10	Case	Mu Chou asked a monk, "Where have you just come from?" The monk immediately shouted. Mu Chou said, "I've been shouted at by you once." Again the monk shouted. Mu Chou said, "After three or four shouts, then what?" The monk had nothing to say. Mu Chou then hit him and said, "What a thieving phoney you are!"
12	Commentary	That evening Tung Shan entered Yun Men's room; drawing near, he asked, "Where was my fault?" Yun Men said, "You rice bag! From Kiangsi to Hunan, and still you go on this way."
16	Verse	Responsive preaching comes to scornful detraction (Why are your nostrils in my hand? Eight blows pays for thirteen. What about you? He lets the initiative go, so I'll strike.)
38	Commentary	See how an excellent student naturally has a sharp and dangerous edge to his personality. Even Nan Yuan couldn't really handle him. The next day, Nan Yuan just posed an ordinary question, saying "Where did you spend this summer?" Hsueh said, "I passed the summer along with Attendant Kuo at the Deer Gate." Yuan said, "So really you had already person­ally seen an adept when you came here." Yuan also said, "What did he say to you?" Hsueh said, "From beginning to end he only taught me to always be the master." Yuan immediately struck him and drove him out of the abbot's room; he said, "What is the use of a man who accepts defeat?"
57	Commentary	"Stupid oaf" is a country expression of the people of Fu Chou, to revile people for being without intelligence. When the monk said, "This is still picking and choosing," Chao Chou said, "Stupid oaf! Where is the picking and choosing?"
73	Commentary	At the time there was a monk who came forward and asked, "What is the true man without station?" Lin Chi came down from the meditation platform and grabbed the monk tightly saying, "Speak! Speak!" The monk was speechless. Lin Chi pushed him away and said, "The true man without station-what a dry piece of shit he is!"
76	Biographical Supplement of T'ien Jan	(One day during the year) 809 the master stretched out on T'ien Chin Bridge. When the governor, Lord Cheng, appeared, the master reviled him and didn't get up. One of the governor's attendants asked him his reason for doing this. The master took his time about answering and said, "(Because I am) an un­concerned monk."
78	Verse	Though you've washed in fragrant water, I'll spit right in your face.
84	Commentary	Hsueh Tou says "Bah! to old Vimalakirti!" Why does he start off at the very beginning reviling him?
87	Translators' Notes	Later Hsueh Tou said of this, "This fellow was sloppy in life and fat-headed in death. 'Just this thing, not anything else'-what thing is this? Is there any­ thing to impart, or not? Some people do not know how to cut off Ta Mei's footsteps, and merely say that he was in too much of a hurry to be on his way."
98	Commentary	"Followers of the Ch'an house like to be scornful; having studied till their bellies are full, they can't put it to use." This fellow understood, as far as understanding goes; it's just that he couldn't use it. He always gazed at the cloudy sky and said he understood so much Ch'an; but when he was heated a little in the fireplace, it turned out that he couldn't use it at all.

No one claims any character makes progress one angry outburst at a time, and yet these scenes are preserved.

Submitted October 06, 2019 at 06:03AM by thralldumb https://ift.tt/2LRYdMO