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Dongshan, the most famous Soto Master of all time:
Integration in the darkness uses work to illuminate things, and uses things to illuminate work; it uses errors to illustrate accomplishments, and uses accomplishments to illustrate errors equally in this way. Whatever Yao-shan, Tung-shan, and all the other worthies produced that went beyond into the absolute were just marvelous expressions of mystic conversation, that is all. When they subsequently came to those who had attained a little power, they drew them into the absolute, in which context this type of saying is commonly used.
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- Why are Zen Masters "Zensplaining" things all the time? What is the role of conversation in Zen study?
- Remember, Dongshan is the one who says IF YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE IN REAL LIFE WHAT GOES BEYOND BUDDHA FIRST you must be capable of a little CONVERSATION
- If you don't have conversations, what is your study? What is your practice? If you can't talk to some people because you don't like what they have to say, what does that say about YOU?
- We go around and around about the precepts... what's holding you back from taking them? Don't tell me its conversation.
Submitted June 27, 2022 at 05:54AM by ewk https://ift.tt/IW31gPL
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