
Practice and Resilience
· Teachings · dukkha, emptiness, enlightenment, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, interdependence, liberation, relative and absolute, Resilience, responsibility, Summer / Fall 2018by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
FROM THE RECORD OF MASTER YANGSHAN
Ho-shang Mi of Ching-chao sent a monastic to ask Yangshan: “Right in this very moment are you dependent on enlightenment?”
Yangshan said “There is no absence of enlightenment. Why fall into the secondary?”
Ho-shang Mi was a peer of Master Yangshan, a very important Chinese master in our lineage. Here he asks, right in this moment are you dependent upon enlightenment?
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