Doushuai’s Wild Places (MK73a)
KOAN:
a. People go to wild places to search for their true nature. When you do this, where is your true nature?
—Pacific Zen Miscellaneous Koans, Case 73a (1st of Doushuai’s Three Barriers)
The Buddha looked up and saw the morning star and awakened.
He cried out, “Now, at last, I see that all beings have the nature of the one who comes thus. Only their delusions and attachments keep them from realizing this."
KOAN:
a. People go to wild places to search for their true nature. When you do this, where is your true nature?
—Pacific Zen Miscellaneous Koans, Case 73a (1st of Doushuai’s Three Barriers)