Zen Stories: The Buddha is in the Home

发布日期:2017-03-20   字体大小:   

One day, a young man named Yang Fu left his parents to go to Sichuan (Szechwan) to visit the bodhisattva Wuji.

A monk asked him: “Where are you going, young man?”

“I am going to study under Wuji, the bodhisattva.” He answered.

“Instead of looking for a mere bodhisattva, you’d be better off looking for the Buddha.” The Monk told him.

“Do you know where I can find the Buddha?’

“When you return home, a person wearing a blanket and with a shoes on the wrong feet will come to greet you. That person is the Buddha.”

“Right!” Yang Fu hurried back, arriving at his home late at night…

In her joyful to greet her returning son, Yang Fu’s mother threw on a blanket and accidentally put her slippers on the wrong feet. As she rushed out the door to meet him, Yang Fu took one look at her and was suddenly enlightened.

A wholesome thought from within the mind can often help us slough off the shell of our inferior selves and, like the croak of a frog cause a sudden and profound enlightenment. (From Zen Stories: The Staff and Shout of the Venerable Ones)