Bill! and All,
Zenist word games are cute! But, in your opinion, what is the message? --ED --- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > Anthony, > > You only told half the story... > > After Hyakujo had buried the fox one of his students (Obaku)asked him, 'If the old man who had been turned into a fox had originally answered correctly, what then?' Hyakujo replied, 'Come closer and I'll tell you.' As Obaku aproached he reached out and pinched Hyakujo's nose. At that Hyakujo clapped his hands and exclaimed, 'I thought the barbarian's beard was red, but here is a barbarian with a red beard!' > > See THE GATELESS GATE, Case #2 for a full translation...Bill! > --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu wuasg@ wrote: > > > > fbMerle, > > > > Looks like you have not heard the story of the Wild Fox Zen. I will present it in a simple way. The famous Chinese monk Hyakujo (literally a hundred yard) found an old man always present in his dharma talk. He curiously asked who he was, and was replied that he was a fox, and had stayed that way for 500 years. The reason why he reincarnated as a fox for so long was that he claimed that a successful practitioner would have escaped the law of cause and effect. To that, Hyakujo gave the old man a 'turning word' that successful practice will not 'obscure the causative law. The old man was immediately liberated. After the dharma talk that night, the sangha discovered a corpse of a wild fox, and they buried him according to the sangha ritual. That is the story of Master Hundred Yard and the Fox. > > > > Anthony
