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In the Mumonkan (The Gateless Barrier), compiled by Zen master Wu- men
(Mumon), Mu heads the collection of forty-eight koans. What is the source of Mu’s
power, what has enabled it to hold first rank among koans for over a thousand years?
Whereas such koans as “What is the sound of one hand?” and “What is your Face
before your parents’ birth?” bait the discursive mind and excite the imagination,
Mu holds itself coldly aloof from both the intellect and the imagination. Try as it
might, reasoning cannot gain even a toehold on Mu. In fact, trying to solve Mu
rationally, we are told by the masters, is like “trying to smash one’s fist through an
iron wall.” Because Mu is utterly impervious to logic and reason, and in addition is
easy to voice, it has proven itself an exceptionally wieldy scalpel for extirpating from
the deepest unconscious the malignant growth of “I” and “not-I” which poisons
the Mind’s inherent purity and impairs its fundamental wholeness. |
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狗仔卡
发表于 2023-8-6 00:12:34
