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Winter Retreat - The Recorded Sayings of Linji
Listen with a peaceful heart as if enjoying a piece of music or contemplating a painting, without using reasoning or analysis. When Zen Master Ma Kok asked, “In the thousand eyes and thousand hands of Great Compassion, which is the true eye?”, Linji simply replied, “Speak quickly, speak quickly,” then pulled Ma Kok down from the platform, inviting him not to stand outside as an observer but to directly enter the situation. This is merely a play to break through the distinction between “primary and secondary” and to encourage each person to discover the wisdom already present within themselves.
Zen uses questions as a means to “shake” thinking, forcing the questioner to “cross the bridge” through direct experience, not clinging to words or concepts. Just as a child must touch fire to know it burns, insight does not come from explanations but from direct personal realization.
Within this “rosy-red” body is hidden the “true person of no rank” (the person of no position), inviting us to look deeply into this pinkish, whitish form to see the noumenal ground that transcends space, time, and all aggregates. Mindfulness in each moment is the wondrous function, the miracle that allows us to touch the miraculous person right before our eyes.
