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- Dharma Seed - An Ordinary Person's Life, a 2011 talk by Stephen Batchelor

Let's start this evening with a story from the Chinese chun, Zen tradition.

And this is the story of a monk who was called a Teishan. He lived, I think, sometime in the 9th century.

He was renowned as a great scholar, in particular an expert in the perfection of wisdom. And we mentioned before when Huéneng, as a young boy, was walking down the road, he heard a monk chanting the Diamond Sutra.

and heard the words, where the mind has nowhere to rest, and achieved some breakthrough, some epiphany, some insight. Well, Tehshan was a scholar monk rather than a Zen monk and prided himself on his knowledge of this particular body of Buddhist literature.

And he got wind one day that down in the South there were these chun or meditation teachers who were saying that you could gain direct insight into the nature of things without relying upon texts. Now this was for him like the proverbial red flag to the bull.

and he said, I'm going to go down there and sort these people out. We don't want any of this. So he heads off and starts