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he could not deceive. And anyway, you are only deceiving yourself.
ONE OF DAIBAI'S MONKS ASKED HIS MASTER THE SAME QUESTION, TO WHICH DAIBAI REPLIED,
"HIS COMING HAS NO MEANING."
The question is the same. The masters are different. The answers apparently are different, but not truly.
Daibai said, "HIS COMING HAS NO MEANING."
Meaning is always part of the mind. Without mind, there is no meaning, there is only silence. There is significance, there is beauty, there is dance, there is music, but no meaning. Mind is meaning: no-mind is no meaning. One of the names of Gautam Buddha is tathagata. It has many connotations. One of them is worth remembering at this point. It means, "Came thus, gone thus" -- just like a breeze. You don't ask, "What is the meaning of the breeze coming and then going away?" You know the breeze has no-mind, hence you cannot ask the question.
Daibai said, "HIS COMING HAS NO MEANING."
But remember the word `no' because that `no' cancels meaning and mind. Just as waiting will cancel mind, its worries, its questions; just as waiting will make you silent, so `no' will create the same space. Different masters, different answers; but pointing to the same space.
THE MONK BROUGHT THIS QUESTION TO ENKAN, WHO SAID, "TWO DEAD MEN IN ONE COFFIN."
It does not happen anywhere: two dead men in one coffin. He is saying by this statement that you are putting two dead men in one coffin: you are putting this significance, the tremendous beauty, the grace, into one coffin with Bodhidharma. But Bodhidharma is after all a coffin just as you are, just as I am. Inside, there can be only one, not two.
Enkan's meaning is a little difficult to understand but he is saying, "Don't put contradictory things together. Mind and meaning? What has mind to do with meaning? And what has Bodhidharma to do with coming?" Even without Bodhidharma, dhyan was going to blossom. It is just coincidental that Bodhidharma was being used by existence to bring the message.
It reminds me of Albert Einstein. He was asked that, "If you had not discovered the theory of relativity, can you tell us how many years we would
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