Cuiyan Kezhen
Jap. Suigan Kashin
Emerald Cliff    Ability Truth
born:  c. 1000
died:  c. 1064

place:  China
Chan master:  Shishuang Chuyuan (J. Sekiso Soen,
"Jimyo")

Chan disciples:  3 recorded as masters.
stories:

Osho:
Zen: The Quantum Leap From Mind to No-mind,
ch. 11
Chinese simplified:
           oshobob  The Living Workshop                                         
                                                       Zen Masters
Suigan, thinking he had attained something of
Zen, left Jimyo's monastery, when he was still a
young monk, to travel all over China.
Years later, when Suigan returned to visit the
monastery, his old teacher asked, "Tell me the
summary of Buddhism."

Suigan answered, "If a cloud does not hang over
the mountain, the moonlight will penetrate the
waves of the lake."

Jimyo looked at his former pupil in anger. He
said, "You are getting old! Your hair has turned
white, and your teeth are sparse, yet you still
have such an idea of Zen. How can you escape
birth and death?"

Tears washed Suigan's face as he bent his head.
After a few minutes he asked, "Please tell me the
summary of Buddhism."

"If a cloud does not hang over the mountain," the
teacher replied, "the moonlight will penetrate the
waves of the lake."

Before the teacher had finished speaking,
Suigan was enlightened.


Enlightenment is pure silence, the silence of
no-mind. Your mind is continuously going on and
on, yakkety-yak, yakkety-yak. Do you see it in
the meditation? Do you think it is coming from
somewhere outside? It is within you and you are
hiding it. And my effort is to persuade you not to
hide it, not to suppress it, to throw it out. Perhaps
tears may come to your eyes or laughter and a
deep understanding may arise.

If Suigan can become enlightened, why cannot
you? It is everybody's birthright....

                                                  --Osho
Zen: The Quantum Leap From Mind to No-Mind,
ch. 11