Jiashan Shanhui
Jap., Kassan Zenne
Mt. Jiashan Good Assembly
| born: 805 died: 881 76 years place: China |
Surname: Liao
posthumous name: Transmitting Clarity Great Teacher
Jiashan was originally from Guangzhou, China.
posthumous name: Transmitting Clarity Great Teacher
Jiashan was originally from Guangzhou, China.
| stories: Osho Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest, ch. 1 Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt, ch. 9 |
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
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| When a monk asked Kassan, "What is the Way?" he answered, "The sun overflows our eyes; for ten thousand leagues not a cloud hangs in the sky." "What is the Real Form of the Universe?" asked the monk. "The fishes at play in the clear-flowing water make their mistakes," replied Kassan. Kassan said, "Don't be worried about the universe; think of yourself as just like a small fish in the ocean." Zen is alone in its great insight that it does not use the word `sin', but only `mistake'. The fish can make mistakes in the ocean, but that does not change its original nature. Whatever you have done, you have simply been writing on water. Your right, your wrong, your virtue, your sin – all are divisions of the mind. Your sinners and your saints – all are fish in the same ocean. Somebody is going this way, somebody is going that way. Not to make this distinction of sinners and saints, of right and wrong, and just to be utterly silent, without any judgment – this is your original nature. You have found the universe within yourself. Then the sun rises within you and the whole sky with all the stars is part of your consciousness... --Osho Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest, ch. 1 |