The Hundred Questions #38 - What place is highest?

38. Question: 'Climbing higher with every step is easy' - what place is the highest?

Answer: The bottom of the ocean.

Verse

The bottom of the ocean -

How to visit the ancestral shrine?

In comparison with the Separate Peak

It doesn't differ by half a grain.

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I'm fond of saying dimensions are round; that the brightest light is blinding. Zen masters talk about seeing sound, about the seeing of not seeing.

"Do you understand?"

It's a common question that Zen masters ask. But, at what point did you decide that this question is different from 'Why did Bodhidharma come from the West ?' or the question to the man hanging by his mouth from a tree, who either fails or loses his life?

They're killers.

Submitted July 07, 2020 at 02:11PM by sje397 https://ift.tt/38xlwFn