The Source Of Zen

THE ESSENCE OF “YOU” is vast.

Mindfulness, present moment, mindlessness, talk, release have nothing to do with it.

            If I were to explain the source of Zen, there wouldn’t be a single person

            around, let alone a group of five hundred or seven hundred.  If I talk

            about this and that, however, you race forward to pick it up.  This is like

            fooling a child with an empty fist—there is not reality in it.

                        Yangshan

            At Zen centers they say there is a Way to be practiced and a religious

truth to be realized.  Tell me, what religious truth is realized, what way

is practiced?  In your present functioning, what is it you lack?  What would

you fix?

            Younger newcomers, not understanding this, immediately believe

These mesmerists and let them talk about things that tie people up.

            Linji