牧羊人的北海大草原

公案13 : 一物亦無

大顛問石頭希運禪師曰：「古人云：道有、道無是二謗[1]，請師除。」

石頭禪師曰：「一物亦無，除個什麼？」[2]

[1] 前一篇無問無答就是在說，有問題才有答案，沒有問題何需作答，所以道有論跟道無論，兩者都不是佛要教導眾生的。禪－講求空即是有，有即是空。說來矛盾其實卻並不矛盾也。

[2] 常云：天下本無事，庸人自擾之。無我亦無心，無心亦無佛。一物亦無何來困擾之？

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Case #13 : Everything is Nothing

A monk asked a Zen master : “There is an old saying : “Everything has its answer and everything has no answer, but Buddha said either one of them are true”. Master, please tell me what’s the truth?”

The Master replied : “Everything is just nothing. Is there A QUESTION?” [1]

[1] This teaching is the Zen version of the previous file – No Questions and No Answers. When you still have the question about what’s the alternate answer, then you’ve not understood that everything is all but an illusion of nothing, there is no question at all. So is there a question, or isn’t that the question itself being just another illusion?

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