Book of Equanimity Case 25

[Shujin]

Still sitting in the ice cave, off to read Shobogenzo.

Gassho.

[alan.r]

How do we throw away the fan? Not anything to throw away except the need to throw something away. Some sorrow is blue sky. Listen to my eyes. No me and you, so let's sit here together.

[Kaishin]

Why the need to fetch what's already here?



Gassho, Kaishin

[RichardH]

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.

A million tons,
yet weightless

Gassho, Daizan

[santosh]

The teacher or if you prefer, life itself, always asks us to present, display, show our realization- being rather than talk about it.

My understanding of Enkan's Rhinoceros Koan is absolutely broken. Nothing left to fetch.

Thank you for urging me with your teaching.

Gassho,
Santosh.

[Ed]

The nature of fan is the nature of wind.
The nature of wind is the nature of air.
Air covers the world, fan is gone.
Have a cup of tea.

[Matt]

'How do you throw away the fan? Because as long as there is a person to throw away something, the fan is still there. How do I throw away the fan without hands and head?'

Thank you for this question, and for the responses in this thread. I would echo some others re the dropping away thing. But know that the echoing is not the dropping away.

Gassho,
Matt

[jeff_u]

There is a broken fan before me.
Yet it is not broken, only my mind is broken.
No mind, no fan. Empty.
...
Drinking tea by the ocean.
There is a broken fan before me.

[galen]

Some insightful posts here.

Taigu... some confusion on my part. In your saying that the attendant (student) in showing his lack of ability, inadequacy and/or being totally fooled, does not seem to be Wicks take on this Main Case. He says the attendant was no slouch (page 79, third paragraph), by him stating that the horn is broken... ie, it wasn't broken till he brought it up and started talking about it, but that broke It; now its broken.

Does that not also point to the question in the Preface... "Where is the fault?" (any attachment to pain or pleasure)


Gassho

[Gen01]

Thank you Jundo!
Gassho.

[Taigu]

Hi Galen,

Trying to put reality into words, the fan breaks. And yet, there s no other way. We have to say something.

Take great care

Gassho


Taigu

[Taigu]

Hi Galen,

Trying to put reality into words, the fan breaks. And yet, there s no other way. We have to say something.

Take great care

Gassho


Taigu

[Kyonin]

How can something break when that something is the universe?

Nothing to break. Nothing to throw away.

Just the universe and all that is empty.

Vacuum.

Thank you for this teaching.

Gassho,

Kyonin

[galen]

Hi Galen,

Trying to put reality into words, the fan breaks. And yet, there s no other way. We have to say something.

Take great care

Gassho


Taigu

Well `said, Taigu.

And sometimes both sides of the same coin is the something.

Thank you for your patience.


Gassho

[Shogen]

Untouched perfection
Words placed aside
Allowing the radiance
Of reality
In a single pearl
Gassho, Shogen