Returning to the Source ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 11 Dec 1974 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 26min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | SOURCE01 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Kakua was the first Japanese to study Zen in China, and while he was there he accepted the true teaching.
- When he was in China he did not travel. He lived in a remote part of a mountain and meditated constantly.
- Whenever people found him and asked him to preach, he would say a few words, and then move to another part of the mountain where he could be found less easily.
- When Kakua returned to Japan, the emperor heard about him and asked him to come to court to preach Zen for the edification of himself and his subjects.
- Kakua stood before the emperor in silence. He then produced a flute from the folds of his robes, blew one short note, bowed politely, and disappeared. No one ever knew what became of him.
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