Saturday, 8 June 2013

Are You Here? | A Short Zen Story


A visiting monk was taking leave of master Ch’ang Kuan of Wu-feng. 

The master said to him, “When you travel around, don’t slander me by saying that I am here.” The monk said, “I won’t say you’re here.” 

The master asked, “Where would you say I am?” The visiting monk held up one finger (to symbolically express the Zen intuition of oneness). “Ah,” said the master, “you have already slandered me.”

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