ABSOLUTELY!!! ...Bill!
--- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote:
>
> ED,
> Â
> Come closer to Bill! and what you see is what you get WYSIWYG.
> Â
> Anthony
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: ED <seacrofter001@...>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, 20 August 2012, 21:55
> Subject: Re: [Zen] to be fox or not to be or what?
>
>
> Â
>
>
> Bill!,
>
> Can you give me/us a hint as to how this story/koan demonstrates Buddha
> Nature? Thanks.
>
> --ED
>
> --- In mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com, "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote:
> >
> > ED,
> >
> > There's no 'message' here, at least no intentional one. Zen koans are
> not intended to impart messages or knowledge. They are intended to
> demonstrate Buddha Nature.
> >
> > ...Bill!
>
> > > Bill! and All,
> > >
> > > Zenist word games are cute!
> > >
> > > But, in your opinion, what is the message?
> > >
> > > --ED
>
> > > > 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 mailto:Zen_Forum%40yahoogroups.com, 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
>
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