study yourself and let truth help you. Mack
--- In [email protected], "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great story. I would like to then question the Master - "OK. So now how do > I become a Master like you?" > > ----- > > A Zen Master was chopping wood. A man had come to enquire. He had > heard the name of the Zen Master. It had been a long journey to come > to the mountains where the Master lived with his disciples. He asked > this woodcutter -- because he could not think that the Master would > be chopping wood -- he asked this woodcutter, "I have heard about a > great Zen Master who is enlightened. Where is he?" And the Master > said, "Look at me! I am that!" The seeker thought this man to be > mad. Still, to be polite with him -- and it is better to be polite > with a madman.... And he had a great axe in his hand, and who knows? > And he looked so ferocious.... > And he said, "I am that! What do you want?" > He said, "So you are that great Master. What did you do before your > enlightenment?" > He said, "I used to chop wood and carry water from the well." > "And now what do you do?" > He said, "I chop wood and carry water from the well." > And the man said, "Then what is the difference? Then what is the > point of your enlightenment if you still chop wood and carry the > water from the well?" And the Master laughed... > He laughed and said, "You fool! Before enlightenment I used to chop > wood, I used to carry water. Now water is carried, wood is chopped. > I am not the doer; that is the difference." > > ~ Source: http://www.sampava.gomain.org > > > > > Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi > Yahoo! Groups Links Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
