JMJM, This is a decent enough translation of the koan. I don't believe I need to send you anything else on it.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote: > > > > > Hyakujo's Fox > > When Hyakujo Osho delivered a certain series of sermons, an old man > always followed the monks to the main hall and listened to him. When the > monks left the hall, the old man would also leave. One day, however, he > remained behind, and Hyakujo asked him, "Who are you, standing here > before me?" > The old man replied, "I am not a human being. In the old days of > Kashyapa Buddha, I was a head monk, living here on this mountain. One > day a student asked me, 'Does a man of enlightenment fall under the yoke > of causation or not?' I answered, 'No, he does not.' > Since then I have been doomed to undergo five hundred rebirths as a fox. > I beg you now to give the turning word to release me from my life as a > fox. Tell me, does a man of enlightenment fall under the yoke of > causation or not?" > Hyakujo answered, "He does not ignore causation." > No sooner had the old man heard these words than he was enlightened. > Making his bows, he said, "I am emancipated from my life as a fox. I > shall remain on this mountain. I have a favour to ask of you: would you > please bury my body as that of a dead monk." > Hyakujo had the director of the monks strike with the gavel and inform > everyone that after the midday meal there would be a funeral service for > a dead monk. The monks wondered at this, saying, "Everyone is in good > health; nobody is in the sick ward. What does this mean?" > After the meal Hyakujo led the monks to the foot of a rock on the far > side of the mountain and with his staff poked out the dead body of a fox > and performed the ceremony of cremation. > That evening he ascended the rostrum and told the monks the whole story. > obaku thereupon asked him, "The old man gave the wrong answer and was > doomed to be a fox for five hundred rebirths. Now, suppose he had given > the right answer, what would have happened then?" > Hyakujo said, "You come here to me, and I will tell you." > Obaku went up to Hyakujo and boxed his ears. Hyakujo clapped his hands > with a laugh and exclaimed, "I was thinking that the barbarian had a red > beard, but now I see before me the red-bearded barbarian himself." > > http://oaks.nvg.org/gate-struggles.html#2 > <http://oaks.nvg.org/gate-struggles.html#2> > > > > --- In [email protected], Jue Miao Jing Ming - > 覺å¦ç²¾æ <chan.jmjm@> wrote: > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > Sorry to admit that I have not read any English book about Zen. > > > > Please send me something. > > > > Thank you, > > JM > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
