Returning to the Source ~ 03
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 13 Dec 1974 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 18min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | SOURCE03 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Nansen, the famous Chinese Zen master, was in the woods one day, near the temple, cutting down trees with a huge axe.
- A monk who had come from a distance to pay homage to the master, passed through the woods and came close to the woodcutter. 'Is the abbot of nansen at home?' he asked the woodcutter.
- The woodcutter replied to the monk: I bought this axe for two pieces of copper. And lifting the axe above the astonished monk's head he added: It is very sharp.
- The monk fled in dismay -- to discover later that the woodcutter was Nansen himself.
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