Returning to the Source ~ 04
event type | discourse |
date & time | 14 Dec 1974 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 34min. Quality: good. |
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shorttitle | SOURCE04 |
- notes
- 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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