Responsibility
(author): Sekida Katsuki
Title
(jpn): Two Zen ClassicsMumonkan and Hekiganroku
Details
(place)New York: (publisher)Weatherhill, 1977
Identifier
SEKIDA 1977
Comments
Information basis
CA
Electronic Version
Referred from
ZEN PHRASES: 安心 (p.118, 148)[_p0298a17(01)乞師安心。磨云。將心來。與汝安。祖云。
T48n2005_p0298a18(03)覓心了不可得。磨云。為汝安心竟
"Bodhidharma set facing the wall. The second Patriarch stood in the snow. He cut off his arm and presented it to Bodhidharma, crying: 'My mind has no peace as yet! I beg you, master, please pacify my mind!' 'Bring your mind here and I will pacify it for you,' replied Bodhidharma. 'I have searched for my mind, and I cannot take hold of it,' said the second Patriarch. 'Now your mind is pacified,' said Bodhidharma."
Hirata comments that the story about 安心 as presented in the JINGDECHUANDENGLU is meant to show a connenction between the first to the fourth Chinese patriarchs. It symbolizes the question concerning the ultimate meaning in a compressed form....]