for whining children

[Guest guest]

Yuansou:

 

 

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees and forests, are always emanating a

subtle, precious light,

day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and

expounding to all people

the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

 

It is just because you miss it right where you are, or avoid it even as you face

it, that you are unable to attain actual use of it.

This is why Buddhism came into being, with its many expedients and explanations,

with temporary and true, immediate and gradual, half and full, partial and

complete teachings.

 

These are all simply means of stopping children from whining."

 

 

Monk protests: "But Master, yesterday you said that Mind is Buddha."

 

Ma Tsu: "That was like offering yellow leaves to a child and telling him it is

gold---just to stop his crying."

 

Monk: "And what about when the child has stopped crying?"

 

Ma Tsu: "Then I say, Not Mind, Not Buddha, Not things!"