The Old Woman Burns Down the Hut: A Dharma Talk: down at the bank of the river

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Entangling Vines: A Classic Collection of Zen Koans Case one hundred, fifty-four Translated by Thomas Yuho Kirchner

There was an old woman who supported a hermit. For twenty years she always had a girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, take the hermit his food and wait on him. http://ift.tt/2fuka6S

One day she told the girl to give the monk a close hug and ask, “What do you feel just now?”

The hermit responded,

An old tree on a cold cliff; Midwinter – no warmth.

The girl went back and told this to the old woman.

The woman said, “For twenty years I’ve supported this vulgar good-for-nothing!” So saying, she threw the monk out and burned down the hermitage

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notes

"If Zen Buddhist practice has turned our hearts into stone and made us oblivious to human sensations and feelings, we have been doing it improperly.” Read more at http://ift.tt/2hM7sRI https://youtu.be/YgSSql6MAKo

Submitted August 10, 2017 at 12:36AM by XC1729a http://ift.tt/2fu2ubz