Zhaozhou in Cases People Don't Like

Another time Zhaozhou said, "I can make one blade of grass be a sixteen-foot golden Buddha^1, and I can make a sixteen-foot gold Buddha be one blade of grass. Buddha is compulsive passions^2, compulsive passions are Buddha."

A monk asked, "For the sake of whom does Buddha become compulsive passions?"

The master said, "For the sake of all people Buddha becomes compulsive passions."

monk said, "How can they be escaped?"

The master said, "What's the use of escaping?"

¹ A particular type of Buddha statue was sixteen feet tall.

² The first two of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are (1) life is suffering, (2) suffering is caused by compulsive passions

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Welcome! ewk comment: Often I just look for what Cases somebody doesn't like. If they like a Case, I skip it. What's the point? But when somebody doesn't like a Case, then I know we're on to something.

Studying what you don't like just seems more efficient to me.

People like escaping. People like purity. People who go to church love to dump on the compulsive passions.

Submitted February 24, 2022 at 06:40AM by ewk https://ift.tt/soJA04Y