-- Xizhòng made Carts --

Zen Master Yuèān (1079-1152) said to a monk, “Xizhòng, the first wheel maker, made a cart whose wheels had a hundred spokes.
Now, suppose you took a cart and removed both the wheels and the axle.
What then becomes clear?”
(Case 8 of the Gateless Gate)

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Zen starts from awareness of body and mind, but it goes beyond both! Are you only a composition of mind and matter? Or something else as well? You can think about this and then come to an answer. You can even mug up its answers from scriptures. Those answers may become right but you shall remain wrong. Only your own authentic experience of truth can save you.
Remember! Zen is not about information. Zen is about transformation! Though Master Yuèān is asking this question, he is not asking you to think or google out its answer. No! He is asking you to meditate and have the direct experience of the truth. So don't blindly conclude that there is nothing beyond mind and matter or there is a soul or there is a God. No! Just meditate.