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.Abika.comZEN STORIES TO TELL YOUR NEIGHBOURS37'answers' in the form of words.IT is beyond words and includes words." I don't know" dwellsthere.""Emptiness is form and form is emptiness.Ultimately we are nothing.We are nobody."This brief anecdote is enough to clear the mind, at least for a few moments.Such deepambiguity, almost anti-dogma, may be all that the Zen master is trying to convey.""I think that, while we are alive, it's early to know who or what we are.Perhaps after our deathsomebody could say what was our mission on Earth.""Was the zen master Socrates incognito?""As long as you don't know something, you are free - free from your prejudices and fears.Then,you learn and you convince yourself that you do know; until, somehow, the world goes out ofyour hands - and you find yourself trembling in a corner, trying to discover again that you don'tknow a single thing about it.And there you are again.""From a taoist perspective, I'd say that not a trace of holiness is accurate because then you don'tfeel on a lower level, you are with the Tao.As Lao-Tzu said, the Tao that can be named is notthe eternal Tao.The master recognizes that categorizing something or someone traps them, so itis better to be without labels.""The truth can be recognized only through intuitive understanding.""One can not express the holly thrue in rational way of thinking.Intuition understanding ofparadox is only way to know.The expression 'vast emptiness' means that nothing containssomething.""It doesn't matter whether he ever knew or not.He hides behind the idea of this.Good or Bad?He voices it like he still holds the answer to the riddle.He is as lost as we all are.He never has(hopefully) suggested that he has the answer because we all have to find it for ourselves."There are many ways to finish the master's statement.'I don't know - and who cares?' is one.'Idon't know -do you?' is another.'I don't know - and will never know' is still another.I tend tolike the first one - but any of them can be used, any of them can be right, any can become a pathto enlightment.We are all prisoners of our own knowledge - our disengagement begins when wedare to say 'I don't know.' And the Things that guide our lives must remain eternally unknown."Get any book for free on: www.Abika.comZEN STORIES TO TELL YOUR NEIGHBOURS38Is That So?A beautiful girl in the village was pregnant.Her angry parents demanded toknow who was the father.At first resistant to confess, the anxious andembarrassed girl finally pointed to Hakuin, the Zen master whom everyonepreviously revered for living such a pure life.When the outraged parentsconfronted Hakuin with their daughter's accusation, he simply replied "Isthat so?"When the child was born, the parents brought it to the Hakuin, who now wasviewed as a pariah by the whole village.They demanded that he take care ofthe child since it was his responsibility."Is that so?" Hakuin said calmly ashe accepted the child.For many months he took very good care of the child until the daughtercould no longer withstand the lie she had told.She confessed that the realfather was a young man in the village whom she had tried to protect.Theparents immediately went to Hakuin to see if he would return the baby.Withprofuse apologies they explained what had happened."Is that so?" Hakuinsaid as he handed them the child.People's reactions to this story:"We are free to tell the mountain that it is too high, the road that it winds too much and the oceanthat it is too wet.""The master taught the village that perception is a relative phenomenon and that reality simply iswhat it is despite how people label it.""Public criticism is a means for those who do not know themselves well.But for well self-understanding people, it means nothing."My tickling is piqued by the choosing of ZenMasterNames, yes.I bet "Iza tsohaw qu-een" issome kind of mystic chant that the author wanted readers to mutter over and over again as theyread this koan."We all have responsibilities.sometimes other create them for us.We then have a choice toaccept these responsibilities or fight them.The Zen master sees the greater good in acceptingresponsibilities that he did not ask for or plan on."That girl is a lying slut.Get any book for free on: www.Abika [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]