4fb9d08492 Since we have Tassajara and the city zend, we areour practice is rather concentrated on city practice or Tassajara practice. There is not means there is no wind. Japan [was] also concerned about their generationfuture generation. My translation is not so good. Hannyatara-sonja,[2] the twenty-seventh patriarch, asked Bodhidharma, There are many things.[3] Things here means various things we see: stones, or mountains, or rivers, or oceaneverything we see and everything we think about. Mus is formless. That is a kind of Zen poem.
This kind of, you know, idea is also true in China, and maybe after Buddhism [was] introduced to Japan. Read the rest of this entry Tags: Problems Posted in Nothing Special Collection, Verbatim Be the First to Comment . This is the purpose of all Zen teachingto make you wonder and to answer that wondering with the deepest expression of your own nature. [Laughs.] That is what you say, but to us it is absurd. And when you see a flower fall, you feel the wind, more than wind is up [?]. I should like to introduce how he became a successor of Hannyatara,[1] the twenty-seventh patriarch, and then I want you [to] ask some questions. There may be many great teachers in various countries, but even though there are great teachers, if your way-seeking mind is not strong enough you cannot study. This is againthis poem again refers to the feeling of there is and there is not. That is, maybe, the reason.
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