The 462nd case from Dahui’s Treasury,
Master Guanghui Lian said to an assembly,
In the olden days, in the assembly of Linji, when the chief monks of the two halls encountered each other, they looked at each other and each gave a shout, then stopped. Tell me, people, were there still guest and host? If you say there were guest and host, you are just a blind fellow. If you say there was no guest or host, you are still a blind fellow. If there was not, yet not that there wasn't, this is myriad miles away. If you can speak here, you still deserve thirty blows. If you can't speak, you still deserve thirty blows. When patchrobed monks get here, how can they get out of my corral? (silence) Ouch! A frog and a worm jump up to the thirty-third heaven, bump into the polar mountain, and shatter it. (raising his staff) You bunch of holeless hammerheads, withdraw at once! Withdraw at once!
Someone asked, "What was the intention of the founding teacher in coming from the West?"
He replied, "Waving a red flag on a bamboo pole."
You can’t win with this guy, but not answering doesn’t get you out of his corral.
He stands on a thousand foot bamboo pole, “even if he is able to enter like that, it is not yet the real.”
What do you think about this case? What questions do you have about it?
Submitted March 24, 2023 at 03:24AM by astroemi https://ift.tt/ADparF2
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