Take It Easy Vol 1 ~ 07
event type | discourse |
date & time | 17 Apr 1978 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 41min. Quality: good Japanese chant before before reading of the sutra. |
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video | Not available |
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see also |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | EASY107 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha. Chant by Sw Prem Prabuddha.
- The sutra
- If it rain, let it rain;
- If it rain not, let it not rain;
- But even should it not rain,
- You must travel
- With wet sleeves.
- Look at the cherry blossoms!
- Their colour and scent fall with them,
- Are gone for ever,
- Yet mindless
- The spring comes again.
- Buddhism
- Is the shaved part of the saucepan,
- The whiskers of the pebble,
- The sound that accompanies
- The bamboos in the picture.
- The puppet-player hangs them
- Round his neck, not his heart;
- He can take out a devil,
- He can take out a buddha.
- If he says,
- "There is nothing special about it,"
- Already he has transgressed,
- And can say nothing else,
- This Daruma Ikkyu.
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