Dongshan’s record series #57
Lung-ya asked, "Why did the First Patriarch come from the West?"
"I will only answer you when Tung Creek flows backwards," replied the Master.
For the first time Lung-ya awoke to the significance of this issue.
Is Dongshan saying that he will answer when pigs fly? When the cows come home? When your father comes home? When the wooden boy gets up and dances? When SJE unblocks ewk?
Let’s hope it doesn’t take that long. So what’s the significance of not answering? We have the famous case of Jianyuan and Daowu, in Daowu’s condolence call (BCR # 55).
One day Daowu, accompanied by his disciple Jianyuan went to visit a family in which a funeral was to take place, in order to express sympathy.
Jianyuan touched the coffin and said, "Tell me, please, is this life or is this death?"
Daowu said, "I don't say life; I don't say death."
Jianyuan said, "Why don't you tell me?"
Daowu said, "I won't say, I won't say."
Bodhidharma faced the wall for 9 years. Vimalakirti was silent. The Buddha responded the same way to an outsider. What’s going on?
It’s hard as iron.
Brittle as bone.
Charged as cirrus.
Why steal thin air,
Explaining to people
gulping and gasping?
In every direction,
Speech flows freely,
And rivers return to their source.
Submitted February 23, 2022 at 04:09AM by bigSky001 https://ift.tt/fiOAc46
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