Q. What is the meaning of ‘He who is in the shrine is not aware of affairs out of the shrine’? – Zen Fools

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A. ‘He who’s within the shrine’ means an enlightened particular person, or a monastic. ‘He who’s within the shrine’ right here represents the previous who’s within the state of Vacancy, the Pure land, that’s, one who can see and listen to all the things as it’s with out being deluded by photographs and phrases, and who just isn’t swayed by affairs of the mundane world since he sees them as empty as if he noticed rabbit horns.

Masters typically scold their college students for being deluded by photographs and phrases by saying, “Why do you reside in a market while consuming meals within the shrine?” On this case, he who’s within the shrine implies only a monastic.

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