The Ancestral Teacher’s coming from the West only means that winter is cold and summer is hot, night is dark and day is light. It’s just that you vainly set up meaning where there is no meaning, create concern where there is no concern, impose “inside” and “outside” where there is no inside or outside, and talk endlessly of this and that where nothing exists.from Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui
Monday, December 10, 2012
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"Lung Ya asked Ts'ui Wei, 'What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?'
Wei said, 'Pass me the meditation brace.'
Ya said, 'Since you hit me I let you hit me. In essence though, there is no meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?'
Ya also asked Lin chi, 'What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?'
Chi said, 'Pass the cushion.'
Ya took the cushion and handed it to Lin Chi; Chi took it and hit him.
Ya said, 'Since you hit me I let you hit me. In essence though, there is no meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?'"
- the "Blue Cliff Record"
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