Yüeh-shan promised to give his monks a dharma talk. Instead he sat deep in zazen. Afterward, the head monk followed him back to his room and angrily said: “You promised to give a dharma talk. But you didn’t say a word.”
Yüeh-shan said: “For sutras there are sutra specialists. For commentaries there are commentary specialists. What do you expect from this old monk?”
Zen Mondo
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“This is a miracle,” Suso exclaimed. “What is your name?”
“I am called Nameless Wildness and my insight leads to that untrammeled freedom when a man lives according to all his caprices without distinguishing between God and himself.”
Western Mondo
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When we look back on this life, we see that when people are born, no one has thoughts of joy, sadness, hatred, bitterness. Are we not born with the state of Buddha mind, given by our parents? But once intelligence develops, we learn habits from others, and our own personal mental habits emerge, and the Buddha mind is turned into a monster because of self-importance. We argue, lose our temper, muse over useless things, repeat the same thoughts again and again....It is darkness to darkness in an endless cycle.
Bankei
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