Essential Zen

To begin to understand you must cut off knowing and seeing, forget gain and loss, and become purified, naked, and perfectly at ease; each and every one must investigate on his own.

Skip to content

Meat and enlightenment

Quotes and quips from The Blue Cliff Record

Moderator: Gonzo

Post a reply

Meat and enlightenment

Postby Red Heart on Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:26 am

One day Banzan was walking through a market. He overheard a customer say to the butcher, "Give me the best piece of meat you have." "Everything in my shop is the best," replied the butcher. "You can not find any piece of meat that is not the best." At these words, Banzan was enlightened.
Galileo Galilei: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
User avatar
Red Heart
 
Posts: 522
Joined: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:46 am
Top
Post a reply

Return to A little Zen

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests

Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group
cron