Tuesday, 7 July 2020

The sad death of a zen master

Yakusan's manner of death was of a piece with his life. When he was about to die, he yelled out, "The Hall's falling down! The Hall's falling down!" The monks brought various things and began to prop it up. Yakusan threw up his hands and said, "None of you understood what I meant!" and died.



Submitted July 08, 2020 at 01:50AM by jungle_toad https://ift.tt/2Cei8TA

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