“Any insistence that people or circumstances meet our exact expectations is not faith but another effort at control, which is bound to end in disappointment.”
-Sharon Salzberg
Blue Cliff Record Case #27: Unmon’s Complete Exposure
A monk asked Unmon, “What is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall?”
Unmon answered, “Complete exposure of the golden wind.”
Chapter III: Yasutani-Roshi’s Private Encounters with Ten Westerners, pages 120-130, “The Encounters: Student B and first half of Student C.”