Saturday, 28 May 2022

I received Urs App's excellent book yesterday, Zen master Yunmen: His life and essential sayings.

I'm ploughing through it, and it's a brilliant read..

Already, only 40 pages into the main section and there are lots of post worthy sections, but this one grabbed me by the nut sack, here it is..

If you want to freely live or die, go or stay, to take off or put on, then right now recognise the man who is listening to my discourse. He is without form, without characteristics, without root, without source, and without any dwelling place, yet he is brisk and lively. As for all his manifold responsive activities, the place where they are carried on, is in fact no place. Therefore, when you look for him, he retreats farther and farher, when you seek him, he turns more and more the other way: this is called the "Mystery"

Submitted May 28, 2022 at 12:12PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/E1B72qN

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