Someone asked Master Yunmen, "What is a successor of the patriarchal tradition?"
The Master said, "Sounds good!"
I'm considering whether his "sounds good" was an approval of the asking of questions itself rather than merely a reply to the specific question. Yunmen in another case says,
"Let me tell you: you must grasp the whole universe, the earth, the three vehicles' twelve divisions of teachings, and the verbal teachings of all buddhas of the three realms and all the masters in the whole empire at once right on your eyelashes!"
How does one do this?
Of course, right after asking this I was reminded of Yunmen sayings, "Don't give free rein to your mouths for haphazard questioning"
Submitted March 28, 2023 at 09:13PM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/3FbtIsw
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