One day an expert in the Vinaya
(the rules governing the conduct of the members of the sangha) asked Dazhu
Huihai, “When one seeks to follow the Dao, is there a particular manner in
which he should behave?”
“There is,” Dazhu said.
“Please tell me about it,” the
other requested.
“When one is hungry, one eats;
when one is tired, one sleeps.”
“But everyone does that,” the
Vinaya master complained. “Your behavior
isn’t different from that of commoners.”
“They’re not the same at all,”
Dazhu said.
“In what way are they
different?”
“When most people eat, they
don’t just eat; their minds are preoccupied with a thousand different
fantasies. When they sleep, they don’t
just sleep; their minds are filled with any number of idle thoughts.”
[Dazhu
Huihai – Zen Masters of China: 142-43]
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