The Empty Boat ~ 07
event type | discourse |
date & time | 16 Jul 1974 am |
location | Lao Tzu balcony, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 27min. Quality: good, but questions barely audible. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | BOAT07 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- There were three friends discussing life.
- One said:
- "Can men live together and know nothing of it,
- Work together and produce nothing?
- Can they fly around in space
- And forget to exist, world without end?"
- The three friends looked at each other
- And burst out laughing.
- They had no explanation,
- Thus they were better friends than before. Then one friend died.
- Confucius sent a disciple
- To help the other two chant his obsequies.
- The disciple found
- That one friend had composed a song
- While the other played the lute.
- They sang:
- "Hey, Sung Hu, where'd you go?
- Hey, Sung Hu, where'd you go?
- You have gone where you really were,
- And we are here -- damn it, we are here!"
- Then the disciple of Confucius
- Burst in on them and exclaimed:
- "May I inquire where you found this
- In the rubrics for obsequies,
- This frivolous caroling
- In the presence of the departed?"
- The two friends looked at each other
- And laughed:
- "Poor fellow,
- He doesn't know the new liturgy!"
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