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OUR BELOVED MASTER,
The monk, Sompu, was once washing a buddha statue. Yakusan came and asked him, “Now you are washing this, but can you wash that?”
Sompu replied, “Please get that and bring it to me.”
The master didn’t say anything.
On another occasion, when Yakusan was sitting down, a monk came up to him and said, “Osho, you are sitting silently. What are you thinking?”
Yakusan replied, “I’m thinking the unthinkable.”
The monk said, “How do you think the unthinkable?”
Yakusan replied, “Non-thinking.”
When Yakusan was about to die, he yelled out, “The hall is falling down! The hall is falling down!”
The monks brought various things and began to prop it up. Yakusan threw up his hands and said, “No one of you understood what I meant!”
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
One day, Ungan was sweeping the garden with a bamboo broom. His brother Dogo came over to him and said, “Hey, you look terribly busy!”
Ungan said, “Although busy, there is something which is not busy.”
Dogo said, “That means there are two moons.”
Then Ungan put the broom on...
Published 03/21/22
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
The monk in charge of the monastery once said to Yakusan, “I have rung the bell; please, Osho, it is time for the regular discourse.”
Yakusan said, “Okay. You come and follow me, holding up my bowl.”
The monk didn’t understand the master’s meaning, and Ungan – who was also...
Published 03/19/22