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ever thought about it? If you touch some people's hands, they are cold; they don't want to share anything. Somebody else's hands are very warm; they want to share their energy with you. Somebody's hands feel almost dead as if you are holding the dead branch of a tree. And somebody else's hands are so alive, so radiant, as if they are dancing with joy.
When the master and the disciple have both finished with all the weeds, all that they can do is sit together, holding each other's hands, sharing the pure energy of their love, their intimacy, their joy. They can dance together, they can sing together; or they can simply sit silently together, immersed in the ocean of silence, just as you are immersed here in a deep silence. The whole sky has descended over you with all its silence.
Zen speaks a different language. Hence it has been misunderstood.
A MONK ASKED NAN-YIN, "WHAT IS THE GREAT MEANING OF BUDDHISM?"
NAN-YIN REPLIED, "THE ORIGIN OF A MYRIAD DISEASES."
Only a very great master can say this, and only a very great disciple can understand it -- the origin of millions of diseases. And this is said by Nan-yin, a great master who worships every morning and evening the statue of Buddha. But he is not talking about Buddha, he is talking about Buddhism. Those who have taken the experiences of Buddha and turned them into great philosophical schools have created so many diseases.
THE MONK SAID, "PLEASE CURE ME!"
NAN-YIN SAID, "THE WORLD-DOCTOR FOLDS HIS ARMS."
Nobody else can cure you. You have the capacity to hold on to diseases or not. Just drop them -- because the diseases of the intellect are not the same as the diseases of the body. Your mind can be totally emptied of all thoughts, of all prejudices, for or against anything. You can be in such a silent and innocent state ... then there will be no disease at all. You will have gained your wholeness and your health, you will have gained your own being which is never sick. Never ask anybody else to cure you; you will be creating a new bondage. Just try to understand that something is a disease and it will be up to you to hold on to it or not. The disease is not
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