Koan: The Muddy Road
Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling.
Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection.
“Come on, girl” said Tanzan at once. [...]
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I’ve posed this question on another site.. wondered what your ‘take’ was.
Following a statement that a Buddhist is someone who takes refuge in the 3 jewels.
Question: What’s actually involved in ‘taking refuge in the 3 jewels’?
I understand its accepting/realising the way to overcome samsara is through the Buddha, dharma & sangha. The [...]
Chapter VII
The Venerable Arhat.
90. There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed himself on all sides, and thrown off all fetters.
91. They depart with their thoughts well-collected, they are not happy in their abode; like swans who have left their lake, they leave their house and [...]
A Buddha
In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha’s precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o’clock in the morning. The other teacher, Tanzan, a professor of philosophy at the Imperial University, [...]
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