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Your Weekly Dharma Battle Royale 2017-02-21 06:48:42 Post No. 2400076
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Running Tuesday afternoon to midnight, I will be hosting weekly dharma battles on this board.
Just to get things going this week, I'll post a koan. In the future, hit me (and each other) with your own questions and/or interpretations.
>A monk asked Tung Shan, "What is Buddha?"
>Tung Shan said, "Three pounds of hemp."
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Zen fag pls go.
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You need the context of this for the solution. Tung Shan was measuring the hemp at the time of the question, I believe, so naturally that is his response. The effect is two fold. First, the hemp itself has Buddha nature in that everything is Buddha nature. Second, he is measuring with disciplined focus, so to him at the present moment Buddha is three pounds of hemp, as the question was unable to direction his focus away from his present action.
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