15.01.2014 - Laughing Buddha1 and Buddhist masters etc. by dali48
01.10.2000 - Interpretation by dali48
His ability to cause and tolerate no surprises have meant that he was responsible for the timetable in a rather large Zen Center...
And how are you? This I would even like to know...
"Stick to the doubt", said my wife. "I rather like a man like that"...
Who exercises true asceticism isn’t flying to Nirvana. The monk who breaks the commandments doesn’t slide in hell...
The verb "Buddhist" means "know"... The heavy exam to see 60 saints out of control, had broken his spirit. He had a nervous breakdown... (J.v.d. Wetering)
Madness helps us to find our true nature... (C. G. Jung)
Bobbie-san had this little breakdown in the hotel in Tokyo, this happens to the best saints. Listen to your superior. Stay true to tradition. Carry your Zen Bib and shave your skull. Sing the sutras...
If an honest man teaches (see Einstein: "Everything is relative", etc. - d.48) a false doctrine, false doctrine is true - if a dishonest person submits a true doctrine, it is wrong... (Joshu = Chao-chou, 778 to 897)
Certainly we know now what's going on. How many times we have reincarnated us and haven’t still understood it? "Where is the mountain of enlightenment"? "Straight ahead, my dear." Let's stay in motion? Do we live our lives?
How can we hope to accept the meaninglessness of our empty egos? We go straight on without taking care of "Tea Ladies"...
Fear was foreign to Zen students. Not caring for career, future, possession, wife or sweetheart, young, old parents, spiritual status...
Zen followers related all their energy doing the right things under all circumstances, and not worrying about the result. Nothing was sacred...
If it's a "shit" for you, it's not important. This does not mean that you need not do it...
I have also given up most things. The most realistic people have done it. That there is nothing that we should hold on, either we know that at our age - or we try to be crazy... (J.v.d. Wetering)
Interpretation of dali48
Zhàozhōu Cōngshěn (Chinese: Chao-chou Ts'ung-shen; Japanese: Jōshū Jūshin) (778–897), was a Chán (Zen) Buddhist master especially known for his "paradoxical statements and strange deeds"...
Zhaozhou became ordained as a monk at an early age. At the age of 18, he met Nánquán Pǔyuàn (748–835; J: Nansen Fugan), a successor of Mǎzǔ Dàoyī (709–788; J. Baso Do-itsu), and eventually received the Dharma from him...
Subsequently, Zhaozhou began to travel throughout China, visiting the prominent Chan masters of the time before finally, at the age of eighty, settling in Guānyīnyuàn...
Zhaozhou is sometimes touted as the greatest Chan master of Tang dynasty China during a time when its hegemony was disintegrating...
Zhaozhou's lineage died out quickly due to the many wars and frequent purges of Buddhism in China at the time, and cannot be documented beyond the year 1000...
He is, however, probably best known for the first koan in The Gateless Gate - A monk asked Chao-chou, "Has the dog Buddha-nature or not?" Chao-chou said, "Wu"... (Wikipedia)
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