Yang-Shan's Mind and Environment

By Tarrant, John, Roshi

Book Id: WPLBN0000705986
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Yang-Shan's Mind and Environment
Author:	Tarrant, John, Roshi
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Buddhism, Buddhism and literature
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Excerpt: This is a koan from the Book of Equanimity. Yang-shan asks a student, What is your native place? And the student says, I come from Yu Province. Yang-shan says, Do you consider the inside of it? And the student answers, I always do. Yang-shan: That which thinks is consciousness, that which is thought about is the environment. Within it there are mountains, rivers and the great earth, towers, palaces, people, animals and other things. But reflect upon the mind that thinks. Are there are lots of things there? The student: I don't see anything at all there. Yang-shan: That's correct, as far as the degree of belief is concerned but as for the degree of being human, it is not enough. The student: Your Reverence, do you have some special advice? Yang-shan: It's not good enough as long as you say there is nothing in particular. From now on meditate on sitting down and wearing clothes. There's a poem that goes with this case.