To: alt.zen
From: jom@ntrs.com (Ned Ludd)
Subject: Re: Zen
Date: 28 Nov 1994 11:14:14 GMT

    Huai Jang asked Tao I, "How can sitting meditation make a Buddha?"
    Tao I said, "Then what would be right?"  Jang said, "It's like an
    ox pulling a cart.  If the cart won't go, would you hit the cart,
    or would you hit the ox?"  Tao I had no answer.  Jang continued,
    "In the midst of transitory things, one should neither grasp nor
    reject.  If you keep the Buddha seated, this is murdering the
    Buddha; if you cling to the form of sitting, this not attaining
    its inner principle."  Tao I stayed with Huai Jang for 10 years.