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What is it?

What is it?
"What is it?" penned by Shin'ichi Hisamatsu

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 Dinesh
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Tradition has it that the Buddha, faced with questions of a metaphysical nature, once used a parable to explain his view: such questions, he said, were like those of a person wounded by an arrow who would like to know what the arrow consisted of, where it came from etc., rather than seek to have it removed and the wound healed. His teaching, he said, was designed to heal, not to answer such questions. This illness, one might add, is a universal one, afflicting all persons alike. ` Page 36

In Chan literature there are countless examples of a similar kind “Who is that is asking me?” or “Who is listening to my words right now?” or simply”What is it?” One’s own true heart, the seekr’s true self; just this appears to be that “very own matter of yours which does not allow anybody to step in for you”

Someone asked Master Yunmen, “What is most urgent for me?”

The Master said, “The very you who is afraid that he doesn’t know!”

Again and again, the master urges his disciples to find out where the problem lies:

Some one asked, “Life-and-death is here; how am I to cope with it?”

The Master said “Where is it?” ~ Page 48

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 raingirl
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Delightful. Here. Now.
13 months ago.

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