Continued from: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/thkggc/measuring_tap_beats_fists_all_around/
Yuanwu said,
Anguo was a successor of Xuefeng. This saying is from the memorial on the tomb of National Teacher
Huizhong: "If you get it in the mind, a castor-oil plant is a sandalwood tree; if you lose it in doctrine, ambrosia is a garden of thorns." It is said that "If a true person explains a false teaching, the false teaching becomes true; if an aberrant person expounds a true teaching, the true teaching becomes false."
"If you get it in the mind, a castor-oil plant is a sandalwood tree"-meeting strength, he is yielding. "Lose it in doctrine, and ambrosia is a garden of thorns"-meeting the base, he is noble. "I want a statement that includes both meanings of gain and loss" -this time, meeting in the middle, there are such people. This remark does not lose the fundamental meaning. Xuedou draws a cat according to a likeness. The three are thus at the same time; what would you have me do?
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Welcome! ewk comment: Measuring Tap seems to cover lots of ground already covered... but better. Which is odd. Maybe the instructive verses are just too hard to explain in a longer form medium?
"It is said" suggests that Zhaozhou was quoting a common saying when he said this. Bit of a stinker, right?
Didn't see that coming, did you?
Submitted March 22, 2022 at 06:10AM by ewk https://ift.tt/LibxJFf
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