Zen Dictionary by Ernest Wood

Author:Ernest Wood [Wood, Ernest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Published: 2013-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Mirror

A man can rightly be called a mirror of the universe, since all things can be reflected in his mind, but the universe cannot be called a mirror for man, since nothing that he sees in it can show him what he is. (See also under Hui-neng).

The following also bears on this subject:

“To prove they aren’t nobodies Men resort to externals.

Could anything be more comical?

Then there is the ostentatious neglect of externals.”

Mirror, Gth of the

Very clearly expressed by Shen-shiu, learned director of studies under the Fifth Patriarch, in the verse which he wrote on the temple wall, as follows:

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