Master Buban, pointing to a chair, said to his disciples, “If you know the chair, it is more than enough to encompass the universe.” Later Master Woonmoon said, “If you know the chair, it is far apart as the heaven and earth.”
Student: “Why did Master Woonmoon say, ‘If you know the chair, it is far apart as the heaven and earth’?”
Master: “When it is more than enough to encompass the universe, it is not a chair anymore.”
Commentary:
Everything is the gate to the Buddha land, but once you pass it, there is no gate in the Buddha land.
©Boo Ahm
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