- Anguo's castor-oil plant
Anguo asked a monk, "If you get it in the mind, a castor oil plant is a sandalwood tree; Yuanwu: Meeting strength, he is yielding if you lose it in doctrine, ambrosia is a garden of thorns. Yuanwu: Meeting the base, he is noble. I want a statement that includes both meanings of gain and loss." Yuanwu: Raising a whisk, I say, tell me, do you call it a whisk or do you not call it a whisk?
The monk held up a fist and said, "You can't call it a fist." Yuanwu: If you can't call it a fist, what do you call it? He's a guy playing with a mud ball
Anguo said, "Just because it's called a fist." Yuanwu: These are two hammerheads without holes
Xuedou said, "The guy binding himself without rope doesn't even recognize a fist." Yuanwu: There are three of them. Even so, they are all academic monks.
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Welcome! ewk comment: These guys are hilarious! It's like a teenage boy hurrying to pick roses for his first girlfriend. Anybody who can't recognize a fist gets punched. It's MATH.
Anguo was from Niutou. I can't recall having met either of them.
Having Yuanwu stand behind you talking at you while you are reading is also hilarious. Please, make this conversation more difficult to follow Yuanwu if you could, thanks. It's like something out of Our Flag Means Death, when they try to figure out what to do with a prisoner: Frenchie: We could cut off all his limbs and turn his back into a table? Gentleman Pirate: No... thank you though. Anyone else?
Submitted March 19, 2022 at 06:59AM by ewk https://ift.tt/g3vJKDu
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