A purple robe—perfect for the "Zen Master."
How can the temple be poor?
Finest silk—worth three hundred strings of green copper coins.
Great function appears here.
Fake abbot!
Let me come and see the true thief.
Zen Master Ikkyū Sōjun [1394–1481]
Ikkyū Sōjun was an eccentric and iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet. He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals. [Source: Wikipedia]
Wandering Ronin commentary and questions: There are apparently quite a few "purple robed masters" here in the Zen forum at this time; far more than I've ever seen before. I am at fault for my earlier behavior which has in part enabled this, so I must work even harder to make up for it. Those whose desire to teach outweighs their desire to learn, those who seek to gain a position as opposed to having none; wherever is there to turn from them? If we wait long enough by the river, the bodies of our enemies will go floating by...
Submitted November 23, 2018 at 10:36PM by WanderingRonin77 https://ift.tt/2FFcQSB
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