Case 5: "Hsiang-yen: Up a Tree"
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Description: Commentary by John Tarrant Roshi.
[This document can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers via anonymous FTP on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU The document's ftp filename and the full directory path are given in the coombspapers top level INDEX file] [Last updated: 26 April 1993] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "MUMONKAN CASE 5" - a provisional title of an originally untitled teisho. This text addresses some of the most fundamental and delicate religious issues. Therefore, it should be read, quoted and analysed in a mindful way. All copyrights to this document belong to John Tarrant, California Diamond Sangha, Santa Rosa, Cal., USA Enquiries: The Editor, "Mind Moon Circle", Sydney Zen Centre, 251 Young St., Annandale, Sydney, NSW 2038, Australia. Tel: + 61 2 660 2993 Please note - the text contains some gaps - caused by a defective tape used for recording of the teisho - the coombspapers - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEISHO John Tarrant Roshi Zazenkai September 13, 1992, Oakland, California This is from the Mumonkan, the koan collection. This is the Fifth Case of that collection. It's called "Hsiang-yen: Up a Tree". The priest Hsiang-yen said, "It is as though you were up in a tree, hanging from a branch with your teeth. Your hands and feet can't touch any branch. Someone appears beneath the tree and asked, `What is the meaning of Bodhidharma's coming from the West?' If you do not answer, you evade your responsibility. If you do answer, you lose your life. What do you do?" Wu-men has a comment here. Even if your eloquence flows like a river, it is all in vain. Even if you can expound cogently upon the whole body of Buddhist literature, that too is useless. If you can respond to this dilemma properly, you give life to those who have been dead and kill those who have been alive. If you can't respond, you must wait and ask Maitreya about it. Wu-men's verse. Hsiang-yen is just b
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