Treasury of Light – Part 2
Originally appeared March 2013
The great master Yunmen, thirty-ninth generation from the Buddha, said to a group in a lecture, “All people have a light, but when they look at it, they do not see it, so it is obscure. What is everyone’s light?” No one replied, so the master himself said on their behalf, “The communal hall, the Buddha shrine, the kitchen pantry, the mountain gate.”
Like the tiny green shoots bursting upward seeking the light of Spring, we too stretch to take in the light of the Dharma. If we “understand” too quickly, we can almost assuredly know our understanding is tepid, superficial, and not worthy of being called “understanding.”
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