Zen Without A Teacher

Anecdotes

oi-Staff

By Staff

Thursday, June 18, 2009, 15:37

You all slurp for lees, running around and hunting for teachings said Huangbo to the community. How can you actually arrive where you are? You are constantly in search of an enlightened master to give something you do not have. Don't you realize that in the whole of China there isn't a single Zen teacher?"

A monk came forward and said, "Then what about all those monasteries and their abbots?"

Huangbo replied "I did not say that there is no Zen-just that there aren't any teachers."