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Chao-chou teaching the assembly said: The Great Way is not
difficult. Just avoid picking and choosing. As soon as words are
spoken, this is picking and choosing. This is clarity. This old
fellow does not abide within clarity. Do you still hang onto
anything, or not?At that time a certain student asked: Since you don’t abide within
clarity, what do you hang onto?Chao-chou replied: I don’t know either.

The student said: Since you don’t know, teacher, why do you,
nevertheless, say that you do not abide within clarity?

Chao-chou said: It’s enough to ask about the matter. Bow and
withdraw.

`The Great Way is not difficult. It just avoids picking and choosing.’This is from the beginning of a poem called “Faith in the Heart,” “Trust

in the Heart-Mind,” by the Third Great Ancestor, third in line from

Bodhidharma, Bodhidharma being number one, that starts off

The Great Way is not difficult.

It just avoids picking and choosing.

Just don’t love or hate

And everything will be clear.

DO you think master was finding himsel in no ansrble position or he was giving some serious message to his displ or he didn’t answer bcos he think that answer will bcom question soon ????
As soon as you set out to describe it, you diminish it. You apply your attachments, delusions and anger to it. As Zooey told Farany if we talk about it we will lose it. MU
but if we will not talk about it we have already lost it.