Zen Under the Gun: A new translation of a new text.
Hengchuan said, "With the sword of wisdom, we cut apart the net of defilement and craving. With the diamond hammer, we smash to pieces the nest of ignorance.
"[Linji's teaching of the true person without position' [has become a cliché.] a dry piece of shit. [Shakyamuni Buddha's phrasel 'the treasury of the correct Dharma-eye' [has become useless.] a broken bowl. Clear-eyed patch-robed monks cannot distin guish them."
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Welcome! ewk comment: You can pretty much start anywhere with this and get into a conversation... is "sword of wisdom" a specific reference? What is "defilement and craving"? Is that the [precepts, again?](www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/ewk/zenprecepts)
How about that translation of "Buddha's phrase". Couldn't it just as easily be "Dahui's whole book"?
Submitted March 19, 2022 at 06:32AM by ewk https://ift.tt/expTtW3
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