401. ZEN REMARKS

 401. In the vast wide world of Master Unmon, is there room for Bodhidharma? If so, where?

400. ZEN REMARKS

 400. Bodhidharma is a key figure in the Zen Buddhist tradition in that he is credited with transmitting Dhyana Buddhism from India to China where it was translated into C'han. Contemporary scholarship has raised questions about the historicity of Bodhidharma and his pivotal role linking Dhyana and C'han. Should it be demonstrated that Bodhidharma is a fictional character, how would this affect your practice of Zen? 

399. ZEN REMARKS

 399. Do you find yourself standing between an outer world and an inner world? If so, on what do you stand? 

398. ZEN REMARKS

 398. Clearly see that 'all five skandhas are empty' and realize for yourself 'how vast and wide the world is'. 

397. ZEN REMARKS

 397. My world, your world, the world -- are they the same or different? 

396. ZEN REMARKS

 396. Suppose you stand at a window of your house and gaze out upon the world. Is it simply out there?  Or does it press in upon you and, perhaps, beyond you? And now where are you, both in relation to yourself and the world? 

395. ZEN REMARKS

 395. Do you stand at a window in your room and survey the world vast and wide spread out before you? Is that world simply the object of an act of spontaneous extroversion? Is your relation to the vast wide world one of subject to object? Is the world -- your world -- vast and wide as it is, limited to what you can see, hear, taste, touch and smell?