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:The sutra | |||
::Chuang Tzu with his bamboo pole was fishing in the Pu river. | |||
::The prince of Chu sent two vice chancellors with a formal document: we hereby appoint you prime minister. | |||
::Chuang Tzu held his bamboo pole. Still watching Pu river, he said: 'I am told there is a sacred tortoise offered and canonised three thousand years ago, venerated by the prince, wrapped in silk, in a precious shrine on an altar in the temple. What do you think? Is it better to give up one's life and leave a sacred shell as an object of cult in a cloud of incense for three thousand years, or better to live as a plain turtle dragging its tail in the mud?' | |||
::'For the turtle' said the vice chancellor, 'better to live and drag its tail in the mud!' | |||
::'Go home!' said Chuang Tzu. 'Leave me here to drag my tail in the mud.' | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:13, 22 March 2022
event type | discourse |
date & time | 18 Oct 1974 am |
location | Lao Tzu balcony, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 25min. Quality: good. |
online audio | |
video | Not available |
online video | |
see also |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | SHOE08 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Chuang Tzu with his bamboo pole was fishing in the Pu river.
- The prince of Chu sent two vice chancellors with a formal document: we hereby appoint you prime minister.
- Chuang Tzu held his bamboo pole. Still watching Pu river, he said: 'I am told there is a sacred tortoise offered and canonised three thousand years ago, venerated by the prince, wrapped in silk, in a precious shrine on an altar in the temple. What do you think? Is it better to give up one's life and leave a sacred shell as an object of cult in a cloud of incense for three thousand years, or better to live as a plain turtle dragging its tail in the mud?'
- 'For the turtle' said the vice chancellor, 'better to live and drag its tail in the mud!'
- 'Go home!' said Chuang Tzu. 'Leave me here to drag my tail in the mud.'
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