01-18-2017, 03:39 PM
'The story is told of a Confucian scholar who besought the twenty-eighth Buddhist patriarch, Bodhidharma, "to pacify his soul." Bodhidharma retorted, "Produce it and I will pacify it." The Confucian replied, "That is my trouble, I cannot find it." Bodhidharma said, "Your wish is granted." The Confucian understood and departed in peace.'
from Coomaraswamy, A. K., Hinduism and Buddhism, 1943, as retold by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
from Coomaraswamy, A. K., Hinduism and Buddhism, 1943, as retold by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces.