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)
We and everything we perceive are interwoven and not interwoven, and this interweaving continues on and on, while each thing stands in its own place.
—Shitou Xiqian
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)