Teachings From Ancient Vietnamese Zen Masters – 210
90 The ‘What Is’
You are asking me; that is your mind manifesting. I am replying you;
that is my mind manifesting. If you have no mind, how can you know to
ask me? If I have no mind, how can I know to reply you. Your mind is
manifesting right at the time you are asking me. Since the time without
beginning, this mind has manifested in all your actions all the time.
According to circumstances, this mind is manifesting while you are
facing me now, talking and asking; this mind is the true nature. What is
asking here? What is talking here? What is having the ability to put a
question here?
CHAN NGUYEN (1647 – 1726)
(COMMENT: What is asking here? What is talking here?
Even when you see it, you still have no words to say about it.
That is the gateless gate.)
THE END
