禪林寶訓 2.54

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2.54

Reverend Gao'an Wu said: "When I first traveled to the Ancestral Mountain, I saw Fojian deliver an informal sermon saying: 'Greedy desire and wrathful anger are worse than enmity and bandits; one must counter them with wisdom. Wisdom is like water: if not used, it stagnates; if stagnant, it does not flow; if it does not flow, wisdom does not function. How then could one deal with greedy desire and wrathful anger?' Although I was young at that time, my mind knew that he was a kalyāṇamitra. Thereupon I requested to hang my bowl and staff." (Yunju Shilu)

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