Xinghua questioned Duty Distributor Kepin, (Disaster) “Before long you will be a teacher proclaiming the Way.” (Don’t spoil the sons and daughters of other families.) Kepin said, “I don’t enter this company.” (Good show—this fellow has blood under his skin.) Xinghua said, “Do you not enter having understood, or do you not enter without understanding?” (He doesn’t avoid bringing on entanglement.) Kepin said, “No connection.” (He immediately slashes with his sword.) Xinghua then hit him and said, “Duty distributor Kepin has failed to prevail in Dharma combat—he’s fined five strings of cash, to be used to provide a meal.” (Acting according to imperative is not beyond him.) The next day, at the time of the midday meal, Xinghua himself struck the signal board and announced, “Duty distributor Kepin has failed to prevail in Dharma combat—he can’t partake of the meal,” then he expelled him from the monastery. (This too is not beyond him.)
Xuedou cited this and said, “Kepin was going to succeed to Xinghua; leaving aside the fine and expulsion for the moment, (A bystander does not agree.) after all he needed to bring on this beating before he could do so. (Striking, I say, after taking a beating, how do you bring it on?) Now I ask you, once he’s taken a beating, how does he call it on? I want to settle something that hasn’t been smoothed out; tonight I will clear duty distributor Kepin’s disgrace.” He scattered everyone with his staff. (Piercing a hole in the basket, he wrestles.)
Yuanwu said,
Generally speaking, descendants of the Linji lineage have to understand this great matter. This case has to be penetrated clearly before you can see. If there is any hesitation at all, it obstructs people completely. When Xinghua questioned the duty distributor Kepin by telling him he’d be a teacher proclaiming the Way before long, Kepin said he didn’t join this company. Xinghua asked if he refrained from joining having understood, or if he refrained from joining without understanding. Kepin said there was no connection and Xinghua hit him, declaring he had failed to prevail in Dharma combat and would be fined five strings of cash to provide a meal. And this fellow, suspiciously, forked over the cash. The next day at mealtime Xinghua personally struck the signal board and announced that Kepin, having failed to prevail in Dharma combat, would not get to partake of the feast; and then expelled him from the monastery. If you want to help establish Linji’s treasury of the eye of true teaching, you have to understand this case before you amount to anything.
People often shout and strike, conceiving subjective interpretations. My talking this way has already divulged the mechanism of nature. At this point, how do you understand? There has to be harmony between father and son, speech and spirit matching, before you can see that duty distributor Kepin. Because he is not the same as ordinary people, as soon as you interpret emotionally you fall into a convention of worldly truth. Just because you cannot pass through, you fall into entanglement in objects and do not know the actions of people who have gone beyond.
You must act on the means of going beyond; you will naturally reach the realm of freedom and ease of those people of old. That is why it is said, “When you walk, I’ll sit; when you sit, I’ll walk. If you act as a guest, I’ll have to act as the host. If you act as the host, I’ll have to act as a guest.” That is how they define each other; if you interpret emotionally, you’ll never find out.
It’s also like when Linji was passing away he said to Sansheng, “After I go, don’t destroy my treasury of the eye of true teaching.” Sansheng said, “Who would dare destroy your treasury of the eye of true teaching?” Linji said, “If someone asked you, how would you bring it up?” Sansheng shouted. Linji said, “Who would have known that my treasury of the eye of true teaching would perish in this blind ass?” Observe them like this: where is there any emotional interpretation of gain and loss?
When Xinghua said to duty distributor Kepin, “Do you not join after understanding, or do you not join not having understood?” Kepin said, “No connection.” Tell me, what did he mean? Later people interpreting subjectively have said he should have just given a shout at first; some have said if he’d shaken his seat mat he naturally wouldn’t have been expelled. They just go on arguing—what relevance is there?
Later on when Kepin became an abbot and opened a hall, he succeeded to Xinghua; that was because he applied himself to the means of going beyond, as in the saying, “When one’s view is equal to one’s teacher, one has less than half the teacher’s virtue; only when one’s view is beyond the teacher is one competent to receive the transmission.” Where is that like people of the present who distinguish gain and loss in subjective thinking?
Haven’t you see how one day a fellow student came to Xinghua, and as soon as they met Xinghua shouted; the monk also shouted, and Xinghua shouted again. The monk shouted again. Xinghua picked up his staff; the monk shouted again, and Xinghua hit him, saying, “Look how this fellow still insists on being in charge,” and driving him out of the teaching hall. That evening an attendant asked, “What did the monk who just came say to offend you?” Xinghua said, “He had the temporal and the true; he had perception and application. I took it upon myself to carry out a couple of rounds of a search right in front of his face, but he didn’t realize. If you don’t hit a guy like this, when are you waiting for?”
One day Xinghua instructed the assembly saying, “If you are adept war commanders, then please enter right in with a single sword; don’t ask how any more.” At that time a certain elder Minde came forth from the assembly, bowed, and then shouted. Xinghua also shouted. Minde shouted again. Xinghua shouted again; Minde then bowed and rejoined the group. Xinghua said, “Tonight Minde has resisted twenty strokes of my staff. Why? Because that Minde knows this shout is not a shout.” Here observe the tactical methods of the manner of his school; you have to be a member of the household before you can understand. Once you’ve understood, it is just easy to see through his bit of a remedy for empty heads.
Xuedou says that duty distributor Kepin was going to succeed to Xinghua; with this one statement alone you can see Xuedou understood very well. If he had not penetrated the bones and marrow and entered deeply into the enemy’s court, how could he know this bit of a difficult point? Xuedou brought it up in such a way that emotions are ended and views eliminated. Xuedou only knows that just citing the story you understand Kepin; who knows how many years he’d have? Why did Xuedou finally say “Tonight I will clear the disgrace for old Kepin,” then drive everyone out at once with his staff? Everyone, tell me, ultimately what was he doing? (danger)
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What an absolute travesty this forum is! What an embarrassment to yourselves you all are! Does anyone understand the principal here?
Kepin didn't make an ass out of himself. Quite the opposite. I doubt any of you understand the point here at all.
Yet, Yuanwu thought it was very important. This is one of the longest commentaries in the entire book. Maybe he just likes Xinghua?
If he had not penetrated the bones and marrow and entered deeply into the enemy’s court, how could he know this bit of a difficult point?
How hardcore is that? I've seen nobody here like this. You can't beg in the enemy's court!
Repugnant! Fascile! Reprehensible thieves, pretending you're all secret geniuses!
Each and every one, here to make sure people hear your voice and learn the truth!
Usurpers! Prostitutes! Destroyers of Buddhism!
Saying "Nansen's cat this," and "Joshu peed that," and "only have no preferences!" What do you know about not having preferences?!
You meat eaters! You scum! You absolute rat filth!
Truly ridiculous! Embarassing! What do all of you even do with your time?!
You're not here to help anyone!
If you were, you would shut your stupid mouths, because it would take you two seconds to realize that everything you say is worthless if you don't understand what's happening in this case!
Everybody wants to be special by being the most clever and witty. Clever and witty?! Trying to be clever and witty makes you the least special person on Reddit. This is honestly just Americanism at its least profounf.
Everybody thinks they're so fucking special! Everybody thinks they're fucking clever!
Fuck you! Do something! Are you even here?
What a waste of time to be reading other people's drama like it's a fucking soap opera! Starting secret servers so you can fight the people who are here over nothing but words on a fucking internet subreddit!
You have no idea how pathetic you all seem to be, each and every one of you. The vast majority of people who come here leave immediately because they know we're fucking morons.
Stop pretending!
Anyone has anything to say about the case?
Submitted February 06, 2022 at 03:35AM by WurdoftheEarth https://ift.tt/AC4HLcI
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