Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73a)
KOAN:
a. People go to wild places to search for their true nature. When you do this, where is your true nature?
– PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 73a
A great minister asked, "I've been reading the sutras—what is meant by, 'A fierce wind has blown the ship off course, setting it drifting toward the land of the Rakshasas'?"
The teacher responded, "Why ask something like that?"
The great minister's face went pale with that response.
And the teacher repeated, "A fierce wind has blown the ship off course, setting it drifting toward the land of the Rakshasas!"
The minister understood.
—Entangling Vines Case 42
KOAN:
a. People go to wild places to search for their true nature. When you do this, where is your true nature?
– PZI Miscellaneous Koans, Case 73a