Measuring Tap 30: How does your poop smell?

The Original Case is bold, Yuanwu's additions start with Yuanwu's added instruction:

30 Xuansha's trouble

Xuansha asked Jingqing, "I do not see a single thing as great trouble'-tell me, not seeing what thing?"

Yuanwu's added instruction: (Your own shit doesn't seem to stink.)

Jingqing pointed to a pillar and said, "Isn't it not seeing this thing?"

Yuanwu's added instruction: (Secondary understanding.)

Xuansha said, "You may drink the pure water and eat the white rice of the riverland, but as for Buddhism, you're not yet there."

Yuanwu's added instruction: (He brought on his saying so.)

Xuedou said, "Even the likes of Jingqing was fooled by Xuansha.

Yuanwu's added instruction: (Xuedou himself has no way out.)

If I had seen him at that time, I'd simply have said to him, 'The prediction on Spirit Mountain has not come to this.""

Yuanwu's added instruction: (I'm just afraid you don't get it.).

Welcome! ewk comment: This idea of Zen Masters doubting each other came up yesterday in another post... interestingly, Yuanwu is overtly saying that Xuedou "doesn't get it", after Xuedou says that Xuansha "fooled" Jingqing... but the way it's translated particularly, the "you" can be the audience as well!

So, who is fooling who?

Submitted February 17, 2022 at 08:10AM by ewk https://ift.tt/WReBJ1l