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Zen Fools title: Zen Fools – What are you when your body is not you?

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After Hyangum opened his temple, Weishan sent a monk to deliver a letter and a staff. Upon receiving them, Hyangum lamented crying out, “Alas, heavens! Alas, heavens!” The monk asked, “Master, why are you like this?” Hyangum replied, “It is because the weather feels like winter during my spring outing.”

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Part 6 – 1

Subhuti said to the Buddha, “World Honoured One, will any sentient beings develop genuine faith by hearing these words?”

The Buddha said to Subhuti, “Don’t talk in that way. In the last five hundred years after the death of me, the Realised One, there will be those who keep the precepts and do good deeds, conceive faith in these words and consid...

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A. Don’t try to find something to rely on. Thinking that there might be something to depend on and looking for it is being deluded by illusions. The aim of Buddhism is to realise that there is nothing to rely upon and no one who will rely, because not only all discriminations of right and wrong but everything else is also empty.

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A monk asked Yunju, “What should a monastic ultimately be like?” Yunju replied, “It’s good to dwell in the mountains.” The monk immediately bowed, and Yunju said, “How do you understand this?” The monk answered, “A monastic should be unshaken like a mountain, even amidst the boundaries of good and bad, compliance and opposition, life and death.” The master immediately struck ...

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Part 5-2

The Buddha said to Subhuti, “All forms are illusory; if you see that forms are not characteristics, then you will see the Realised One.”

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Here, the Buddha provides a more specific method for recognising the true-Self (Tathagata). T...

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