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dharma combat
found this story this weekend, alluding to the different approaches to dharma and their coming to america. i found the anecdote in the beginning of joseph goldstein’s latest new book titled One Dharma. I’ll paraphrase it:
Zen Master Seung Sahn had moved from korea to america and was working in a laundry mat in providence, rhode island - teaching to whomever would listen while they cleaned their clothes. one day Kalu Rinpoche came to visit, and in classic dharma combat style Master Sahn held up an orange and asked Rinpoche “What is this?”
Rinpoche just looked at the Zen Master, curiously.
Master Sahn said again, “What is this?”
Kalu Rinpoche then turned to his translator and asked “Don’t they have oranges in Korea?”
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11. June 2006 at 11:04 am :
Dear good friends, bodhisattvas are always winning the battle at the end, what is the victory for them. When all beings become Buddhas then they will become Buddhas. Dear friends please don’t look at the method of which the great bodhisattvas use, but look at their compassionate mind/heart. Like this, we should trust the Buddha, he abandoned desires (especially sex), position, even beloved wife and son, for the sake of all, so everyone equally (slaves, friends, family, animals etc) will finally realize true liberation. Please read their personal lifes (SeungSahn and Kalu Rinpoche)
In your mind please ask an Arhat, Prayekabuddha, Buddha if the have sex desires.
Bravo to bodhisattvas, you once again destroyed the hordes of demons for the sake of releasing all Beings.