One day Master Namjun said, “Manjusri Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva arrived at the temple around midnight last night, but I struck each of them twenty times and drove them out of the monastery.”
Student: “Why did the master drive the two Bodhisattvas out of the temple?”
Master: “To show the true-Self.”
Student: “To whom did he show it?”
Master: “Why didn’t you see it?”
Commentary:
What can be driven out of temple is not the true-Self. You should see what the master couldn’t drive out of the temple.
©Boo Ahm
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