Returning to the Source ~ 02
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event type | discourse |
date & time | 12 Dec 1974 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 35min. Quality: good. |
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shorttitle | SOURCE02 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Joshu was a master who started to study Zen when he was sixty. When he was eighty he found enlightenment. They say he taught for forty years after his enlightenment.
- Once a student asked old Joshu: 'You teach that we should empty our minds. I have nothing in my mind -- now what should I do?'
- 'Throw it out,' said Joshu.
- 'But I have nothing -- how can I throw it out?'
- Joshu said: 'If you can't throw it out, carry it out, drive it out, empty it out -- but don't stand there in front of me with nothing in your mind !'
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