A monk who had studied under the Zen master Kassan for a period of time. Then he left him to go to many other places for more Zen enquiry. However, he could not find any place that fitted him. Furthermore, at any place visited,...
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DREAM OR REALITY
When one took it as a dream, then it would be a dream to him.
When one took it as a reality, then it would be a reality to him.
If the two of them met each other on the road, Each of them would take his own position. At first it would be a talk. Next, it would be an arguement or a quarrel. Then it would be a fight. At the end, it would be black-n-blue. It would not be the way to understand each other.
That is why a whole man would not take it in either way.
He sees it as-it-is: It comes, it lasts, it passes away, whether it is a dream or a reality. It comes, it lasts, it passes away, whether it is true or false.
That's why it's called "Thus Comes and Thus Goes".
ChonTri
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