Returning to the Source ~ 04

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event type discourse
date & time 14 Dec 1974 am
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona
language English
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shorttitle SOURCE04
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synopsis
Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
The sutra
Mokusen Hiki was living in a temple in the province of Tamba. One of his adherents complained of the stinginess of his wife.
Mokusen visited the adherent's wife and held his clenched fist before her face.
'What do you mean by that?' asked the surprised woman.
'Suppose my hand were always like that, what would you call it?'
'Deformed,' replied the woman.
Then he opened his hand flat in her face and asked: 'Suppose it were always like that -- what then?'
'Another kind of deformity,' said the wife.
'If you understand that much,' finished Mokusen, 'you are a good wife.' Then he left.
After his visit this wife helped her husband to distribute as well as to save.


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